NASA's New Solar Sail Spacecraft Will Shine So Bright We'll See It From Earth
13 Apr 2024, 09:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA is getting ready to launch a new solar sail prototype that promises to revolutionize research in this field
NASA Spacecraft to Fly With Aluminum Foil “Engines” Running on Light
13 Feb 2024, 08:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA is presently testing a solar sail piece of technology and the deployment tech that will soon fly on a test mission
New Solar Sail Could Spill Some of the Sun’s Secret Right Into Our Laps
1 Apr 2023, 09:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new approach in solar sail design may allow for a survey of the Sun's poles, NASA is backing the project through the NIAC program
New Solar Sails Tech Could Push Spacecraft to Places Where the Sun Barely Shines, And Fast
12 Sep 2022, 06:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA awarded a Phase I NIAC grant to an idea of a solar sail featuring something called quantum dot-based spectrometer printed directly onto it
New Solar Sail Booms Could Forever Change the Future of Space Exploration
26 Jun 2021, 05:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In 2022, NASA will launch the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System mission hoping to demonstrate the advantages of the new booms it has been working on
Solar-Powered LightSail 2 Successfully Calls Home, Ops Ready to Begin
8 Jul 2019, 12:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On June 2 LightSail 2 send a signal back to Earth, saying all systems are go for the actual deployment of the solar sails