News: Japan to Launch Solar-Sail-Powered Craft Out Beyond Orbit for the First Time

Popular Science has an article mentioning: "... Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced its intention to launch its first "space yacht" propelled by solar sails into the heavens on May 18. Ikaros -- the Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun -- will cruise through the solar system ..."

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