NASA sees new materials enabling solar-sail propulsion; funds tech effort
Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center hope new materials just coming on the market will enable development of super-lightweight solar sails that will boost spacecraft to unprecedented speeds using only the light of the sun as "wind." Les Johnson, manager of interstellar propulsion...
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