News: Solar sail will harness sunlight during test flight

Spaceflight Now has an article mentioning: "... BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: May 20, 2010 Packed inside the H-2A rocket scheduled to launch Thursday is a low-cost Japanese solar sail that could transform humanity's ability to reach the stars, assuming the spacecraft's tricky deployment goes as planned and scientists' theories hold ..."

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