Unlike the recent Russian satellite failure, our satellites work like they’re supposed to. NASA Solar Sail Satellite Ejects from Mothership in Space A small NASA satellite carrying a folded-up solar sail ejected from its mothership in low-Earth orbit yesterday (Dec. 6), marking a key success in NASA’s efforts to develop and deploy solar-sail technology. NanoSail-D, [...]
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