The Planetary Society's solar sail suborbital test, set for Apr. 26, will be delayed

The Planetary Society's solar sail suborbital test, set for Apr. 26, will be delayed because of an accident during electrical checkout of the spacecraft at Severmosk near the Barents Sea launch site (AW&ST Mar. 5, p. 26). Some of the pyrotechnics were inadvertently fired on Apr. 10 causing the...

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