Japanese Deploys Thin Films in Solar Sail Sounding Rocket Experiment

Japanese researchers have tested two different thin films in a sounding rocket test of solar sail technology. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) launched the experiment Aug. 9 on an S-310 sounding rocket from the Uchinoura Space Center...

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