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NASA Solar Sail Lost In Space

Posted by samzenpus on from the never-to-sail-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to Spaceflight Now: 'NASA has not heard from the experimental NanoSail-D miniature solar sail in nearly a week, prompting officials to wonder if the craft actually deployed from a larger mother satellite despite initial indications it ejected as designed.' NanoSail-D's spring-ejection was indicated at 1:31 a.m. EST Monday, leading to a predicted release of the spacecraft's sail membrane around 1:30 a.m. EST Thursday."

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  1. Re:Long gone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can someone please explain to me why there are posts like this?
    Is this how advanced botnets communticate or is it some odd joke only a small subset of the slashdot community understands? (Or perhaps a joke that everyone besides me understand?)
    I it some sort of trolling? Since it's a wall of text I assume that people generally doesn't read it and don't get offended.

    Please, I would really like to know.

  2. lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    NASA = Tired old dinosaurs