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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Who drew that pic? by neonprimetime · 2006-02-20 09:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Did you see the pic in that article?
Look closely and you'll see a well drawn Astronaut!
I wonder if his kid took part in writing this article? :-P
Re:I remember this idea from years ago by QuantumG · 2006-02-20 10:33 · Score: 2, Funny

Shut your hole, ya God damn Microsoft spy.

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Re:Solar sails myth by AoT · 2006-02-20 12:49 · Score: 2, Funny

Nah, it ain't the gravity. Pluto's just lazy.

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