News: Japan Set to Launch 'Space Yacht' With Giant Solar Sail

AOL News has an article mentioning: "... Thursday with the launch of the world's first unmanned "space yacht," designed to glide to Venus and beyond on the strength of a 46-foot-wide solar sail. >"This will be the world's first solar-powered sail craft employing both photon propulsion and thin-film solar power generation during its ..."

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