News: The week in pictures: 21 May 2010

Telegraph.co.uk has an article mentioning: "... Ikaros was successfully hauled into orbit by a H-IIA-launching rocket together with the Venus satellite 'Akatsuki'. The solar sail 'Ikaros' (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) resembles a wind kite; it measures 20 metres in diameter and is merely 0,0075 ..."

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