News: Japan to send Ikaros solar sail into space

CNET Asia has an article mentioning: "... This month, Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to send a craft--actually it's more of a solar sail--into space with name of Ikaros. (Ikaros is an acronym for Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun.) The Ikaros, which will be ..."

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