News: After prolonged trouble, NASA solar sail

Examiner.com has an article mentioning: "... FASTSAT stands for the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology SATellite, and seemed to have held the solar sail until January 17th.  At that time, the nanosail somehow ejected itself. NanoSail-D is the first solar sail to orbit the Earth.   "We couldn't get ..."

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