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NanoSail-D was a [[wikipedia:NASA|NASA]] mission to deploy a 10 m<sup>2</sup> solar sail from a [[wikipedia:CubeSat|CubeSat]].
The mission ended on August 2nd, 2008, when the [[wikipedia:Falcon 1|Falcon 1]] rocket carrying it failed to reach orbit.
[http://www.nasa.gov/marshall/ NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)] plans to launch the backup NanoSail-D spacecraft as a payload of the FASTSAT-HSV01 mission.

===References===
* Project website: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/smallsats/nanosaild.html
* Science@NASA article: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/26jun_nanosaild.htm
* Discovery Channel story: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/09/solar-sail.html
* YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW1Pf0uMSug
* [[News#NASA Marshall Space Flight Center: NASA and Contractor Team Develop One Fast Satellite|NASA Marshall Space Flight Center: NASA and Contractor Team Develop One Fast Satellite]]

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