Solar Sail News and Upcoming JPL Missions

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday February 20, 2006 @09:04AM from the stiff-breeze-of-progress dept.

abkaiser writes "I had the opportunity to interview a supervisor at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The JPL is putting together several missions utilizing solar sail technology. The interview and article detail where NASA and the JPL are in using solar sails for applications and research.You can read the article or skip ahead to the cool pictures of prototype and proposed solar sails. The article addresses NASA's JPL solar sail missions, but not other commercial or private projects like Cosmos 1."

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Re:JET Propulsion Laboratory by skoaldipper · 2006-02-20 10:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Same here. I wonder just how much time some moderators actually spend reflecting on a post before plopping down some points (plus or minus). The parent was at least mildly on topic; apples to oranges maybe, but surely not apples to "Cheney thought Harry had the avian flu" type posts.

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