News: Japanese using solar sail to launch Venusian probe

Geek.com has an article mentioning: "... A common solution to the problem of fuel on interstellar, slower-than-light voyages favored by science fiction writers is the concept of a solar sail: essentially, an immense, thin kite that attacks to a space ship and propels it on its journey like a sailboat by harnessing solar winds. Given how ..."

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