Next Cosmos 1 flight will be full orbital test, Planetary Society says
The next flight in the Cosmos 1 solar sail project will be an orbital test of a full eight-bladed sail, not another sub-orbital attempt like the one that recently failed in Russia, according to the Planetary Society. A two-bladed solar sail prototype crashed to Earth on July 20 after it failed to...
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