Space-Weather Instruments Added To Solar-Sail Demo

Credit: L'Garde
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is slated to fly NASA's $27 million Sunjammer solar-sail demonstration next year as a secondary payload with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization's (NOAA) revived Deep Space Climate Observatory (Dscovr) satellite. Named after Arthur C. Clarke's...

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