News: Japan's Ikaros Spacecraft Successfully Propelled by Solar Sail

Inhabitat has an article mentioning: "... filed under: Green Transportation Solar Power We?ve been following the progress of the Japanese spaceship IKAROS &mdash the first to unfurl a solar sail in deep space. Today, the ship made the only first that really matters: it caught the sun?s rays with its 3,000 square-foot sail and successfully used ..."

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