News: The First-Ever Solar Sail Spacecraft is a Success

Technorati has an article mentioning: "... Akers Published: June 10, 2010 at 2:34 pm Share Wired Science reported today that a Japanese spacecraft successfully deployed and utilized a 'solar sail'. Yes, it is what it sounds like. The spacecraft, affectionately named the IKAROS, deployed a sail made up of aluminized plastic, barely thicker than ..."

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