Japanese Researchers Controlled Solar Sail
Japanese researchers are working on a solar-sail spacecraft with 10 times the surface area of the Ikaros testbed launched toward Venus last year, after achieving all of their technical objectives with the testbed. This spacecraft will launch on a five-year mission instead of the six-month span...
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