News: NanoSail-D Flies Free

Space Daily has an article mentioning: "... of fortune, NASA's NanoSail-D spacecraft has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space-age fabric 650 km above Earth, becoming the first-ever solar sail to circle our planet. The technology could pave the way for future missions in the Solar System that use the unique method of propulsion to reach ..."

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