... engineers will try to realize a dream older than the Space Age itself: the deployment of a working solar sail in Earth orbit. The name of the device ...
Scientists hope to deploy a solar sail called NanoSail-D this summer.
... thinkers from history have had the same idea. This long-held fancy could soon become reality with one solar sail mission on the drawing board and another ...
The Planetary Society hopes to refit a NASA design to make a third U.S. attempt to fly the first solar sail in space.
... of Strathclyde University described the physics and feasibility of solar sailing, which harnesses the "pressure" of the sun's radiation. First described by James Clerk Maxwell, solar pressure arises from the change in momentum of photons ...
... ANGELES (AP) -- Four years after its first solar sail ended up in the ocean instead of orbit, The Planetary Society announced Monday that by the end of 2010 ...
A UK firm plans to launch a prototype CubeSail nanosatellite next year that would deploy its own solar sail as an atmospheric brake to end its life.
A Japanese rocket will launch an interplanetary weather satellite bound for Venus and a solar sail device to test new propulsion techniques.
Japanese scientists celebrate the successful deployment of their solar sail Ikaros.
A small free-floating carmera returns images of Japan's solar sail, Ikaros, in flight.
A Japanese solar sail has felt its first accelerating push from sunlight in a successful test of its novel propulsion system.
Researchers from around world are celebrating what they're calling a new dawn for spaceflight thanks to the success of a Japanese spacecraft propelled by a solar sail.
Solar sails are gaining popularity and could be tapped to settle an unproven theory by famed scientist Albert Einstein.
Japan's solar sail uses a novel on-and-off reflection technique to steer solely by the pressure of sunlight.
Advances being made to explore outer space using solar sails were discussed by the more than 60 scientists from 12 nations who attended the Second International Symposium on Solar Sailing (ISSS 2010) held recently ...
