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A solar sail backed by NASA might take science to new worlds.
Sailing to the Stars As NASA continues to push the frontiers of exploration, a new solar sail idea chosen for development as part…
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June 2021
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Are fast radio bursts being used to propel solar sail starships? (science video).
The most furious of astronauts, the Angry Astronaut, tucks into the subject of the FRB sources that can’t be traced back to natural…
January 2021
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Oumuamua: Avi Loeb says it may have been an alien solar-sail visitor (audio).
In this hour-long audio interview with the Planetary Society, Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, chats…
August 2019
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Tacking to the worlds: inside the story of the solar sail (science article).
Right now, there’s a solar sail the size of a boxing ring orbiting the Earth, put there by the Planetary Society. This fascinating…
July 2019
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LightSail 2 goes a-solar-sailing (space news).
The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft has now gone solar sailing. After a successful launch on June 25th 2019 from the Kennedy Space…