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Solar Sail to be Launched This Year

Posted by timothy on from the not-to-the-moon-alice dept.

mad_goldfish writes: "Spaceflight Now is reporting that the Russians are preparing a Solar Sail for launch sometime after September aboard a Cosmos 1 rocket. Apparently most of the components have now been tested and they are getting ready to integrate all the flight components. Just the camera, S-band radio and main computer are yet to be completed."

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  1. Organic Remedy by Skip666Kent · · Score: 1, Troll

    What they might need to do is develop an 'organic' sail that grows over time, increasing the surface area to match (as closely as possible) the inverse sqare rule.

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