News: Successful Launch For Solar Sail And Venus Probe

RedOrbit has an article mentioning: "... The new rocket launch carried the Venus climate orbiter “Akatsuki” and the experimental solar-sailor “Ikaros” which will both be heading to Venus. Ikaros -- an acronym for Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun -- is ..."

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