(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) The burgeoning space ...
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A startup plans to sail through space using sunlight
Solar sailing has moved from science fiction concept to working hardware, and now a new generation of entrepreneurs wants to ...
Video shows NASA's futuristic solar sail technology prototype. Like a sail on the ocean propels a boat with the wind, this ...
Cosmos 1, a $4 million experiment intended to show that a so-called solar sail can make a controlled flight, lifted off at 12:46 p.m. PDT as organizers of the private project monitored the launch from ...
Just as sea breezes propel sailboats across the sea on Earth, solar radiation might one day be able to propel spacecraft between the stars. Or at least that’s the hope of French startup Gama. The ...
Engineers in California pressed a button on Tuesday that unfurled the sails on a satellite that can be steered around Earth, advancing long-held hopes for an inexhaustible form of spaceflight and ...
The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric grids, aviation and telecommunications – are all vulnerable to the same threat: space weather. Space ...
PASADENA, Calif. — The world's first spacecraft designed to be propelled by the pressure of sunlight was launched toward orbit Tuesday from a Russian submarine under the Barents Sea. Cosmos 1, a $4 ...
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