NASA and partners to send test solar sail craft into space next year
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 10:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —NASA has announced a project with space company L'Garde Inc. to send a test craft into space sometime next year powered only by a solar sail. The craft, called Sunjammer, after the short story by Arthur C. Clarke about yacht races in space that relied on the solar wind to carry them along, will be much larger than any other tested in space before.