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Russian SLBM Launches Solar Sail

Posted by michael on from the testing-1-2-3 dept.

Barbarian writes: "CNN reports that a Russian Submarine has launched a rocket containing a solar sail payload sucessfully. The mission is a 30 minute sub-orbital test. space.com has more details on the craft." Our earlier story. Another submitter noted that today is the 25th anniversary of the landing of the Viking 1 Mars probe. JPL has a Mars site, which is not responding as I write this. Maybe the Martians got to it. :)

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  1. You missed the important part of this story... by ShieldWolf · · Score: 5

    It was launched by the planetary society (of which I am a member) founded by Carl Sagan.

    Detail about the flight can be found here: http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/ headlines/2001/launch_go.htm

    It is one of the first non-government AND non-profit private ventures into space. It also marks the first solar sail launch into space (although the launch is sub-orbital).

    -Shieldwolf

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