ATK Tests Solar Sail Technology In Vacuum Chamber
Alliant Techsystems reports good results from its deployment test of a 20 X-20-meter solar sail in a large NASA vacuum chamber. The first in a series that will run into July and involve two different companies' designs (AW&ST Apr. 25, p. 17), the ATK test used the 100-ft.-dia. vacuum chamber at NASA...
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