News: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Has Successful Deployed the IKAROS Solar Sail

Next Big Future has an article mentioning: "... spin rate = 2.5rpm, sun angle 13.3deg Wired has coverage This is the first sail ever deployed in space, and if they succeed in using it for solar-sail flight ? it?ll still be a few weeks before we know that ? it?ll be a milestone,? said Louis Friedman, executive director of the Planetary Society, an ..."

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