Solar Sail Test To
The Planetary Society plans to launch its ``Cosmos 1'' solar sail spacecraft this week, and test inflatable sail deployment during a suborbital flight. Cosmos 1 was to launch on Apr. 26 but was damaged on Apr. 9 during prelaunch checkout (AW&ST Apr. 16, p. 25). Engineers at the Russian Babakin Space...
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