View source for Solar sail news roundup for October 3, 2013

It's been awhile since I posted on news in the world of solar sailing, so here's a list of stories that have come out in the past several months.
[[File:LGarde20mDemoSail.jpg|thumb|[[Sunjammer]]]]
* The [http://sunjammermission.com/Media/PressReleases/Worlds-Largest-Solar-Sail-Sunjammer-Completes-Successful-Test Sunjammer project successfully tested deployment of a sail quadrant] at a [http://www.lgarde.com L&#183;Garde] facility in Tustin, CA, on September 30th, 2013. This is one boom and one sail out of four that will make up the flight sail.
** [http://sunjammermission.com/Media/PressReleases/Palm-Middle-School-Pioneers-The-Way-For-Other-Schools-By-Joining-NASA-Sunjammer-Mission-New-Space-Exploration-Education-Program-Launched Students from the Palm Middle School Science, Technology, and Mathematics (STEM) program visited L'Garde and watched the deployment test.]
** News Coverage
*** [http://www.universetoday.com/105202/huge-solar-sail-portion-unfurls-in-crucial-ground-test/ Universe Today: Huge Solar Sail Portion Unfurls In Crucial Ground Test]
*** [http://www.satnews.com/story.php?number=1848540147 Satnews: L'Garde Inc., Space Services Holdings + NASA - Sunjamming For Power (Technology-Sail)]
* [http://www.nbcnews.com/science/solar-sail-ships-seen-best-bet-now-get-us-interstellar-4B11235554 NBC News, September 23, 2013: Solar sail ships seen as best bet now to get us to interstellar space]. Discussion with physicist and novelist [http://www.gregorybenford.com/ Dr. Gregory Benford] on interstellar travel. [http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/projects/project-forward/ Project Forward] of [http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/ Icarus Interstellar] continues the study of beamed sail propulsion to other stars.
** [http://www.space.com/22799-interstellar-solar-sails-light-propulsion-infographic.html Infographic on interstellar sailing]
[[File:IKAROS solar sail.jpg|thumb|[[IKAROS]]]]
* The [[IKAROS]] sailcraft is still alive and orbiting the sun with occasional radio beacon contacts with the ground.
** English translation of IKAROS blog posts:
*** [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.isas.jaxa.jp%2Fhome%2FIKAROS-blog%2Findex.php%3Fitemid%3D1017 IKAROS Daily Report - August 29th, 2013]
*** [http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.isas.jaxa.jp%2Fhome%2FIKAROS-blog%2Findex.php%3Fitemid%3D1016&act=url IKAROS Daily Report - August 22nd, 2013]
* The [[CubeSail]] project and [[UltraSail]] concept of UIUC and CU Aerospace were [http://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/17193 featured in NASA Tech Briefs on September 1st, 2013: UltraSail CubeSat Solar Sail Flight Experiment].
* [[International Symposium on Solar Sailing#Third International Symposium on Solar Sailing|The Third International Symposium on Solar Sailing]] was held on June 11-13th, 2013, at the [http://www.strath.ac.uk/ascl/ University of Strathclyde] in Glasgow, Scotland.

--[[User:Ben|Ben]] ([[User talk:Ben|talk]]) 14:30, 3 October 2013 (EDT)

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