News: First-Ever Solar Sail

Softpedia has an article mentioning: "... July 22nd, 2010, 07:32 GMT Adjust text size: Experts at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced recently that their first solar sail demonstrator, the Ikaros spacecraft, managed to accomplish its mission. They explain that the small instrument managed to deploy a thin solar sail, ..."

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