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====[http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=112 MESSENGER Sets Record for Accuracy of Planetary Flyby]====
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====[http://www.space.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=LS_090519_Space-Engines Space.com: Promising New Space Engines are Opening the Solar System]====
"By using solar sailing – rotating the spacecraft and tilting its solar panels to use the very small pressure from sunlight to alter the spacecraft’s trajectory – [[MESSENGER]] navigators have achieved a new record for the smallest miss distance between the intended and actual closest approach distance during a flyby of a planet other than Earth."
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[http://www.esa.int/ ESA] video on advanced propulsion: "Electric ion engines; plasma drives, slingshot-style gravitational-assist maneuvers; ultra-light super-strong solar sails and other innovations are driving exploration forward beyond reliance on chemical rockets."
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--[[User:Ben]] 27 May 2009
  
--[[User:Ben|Ben]] 8 October 2008
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====[http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/solar-sailing The Atlantic: Across the Universe]====
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An article about [http://www.planetary.org The Planetary Society's] efforts to fly another solar sail demonstration mission - Cosmos 2. Their previous attempt, Cosmos 1, suffered a launch vehicle failure.
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--[[User:Ben]] 5 May 2009
  
====[http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1223/1 Review] of [[Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel]] on [http://www.thespacereview.com/ The Space Review]====
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====[http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Solar_Sail_Update_New_Opportunities_999.html Solar Sail Update: New Opportunities]====
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From [http://www.space-travel.com Space Travel]. Update on [http://www.planetary.org The Planetary Society's] solar sail activities.
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--[[User:Ben]] 3 April 2009
  
--[[User:Ben|Ben]] 6 October 2008
 
  
====[http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/telecon5.html MESSENGER to flyby Mercury 2nd time October 6th.]====
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====[http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1223/1 Review] of [[Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel]]====
[[MESSENGER]] used solar pressure to correct the trajectory without using propellant. The [http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/multi05.html multimedia page] shows how solar sailing reduced the flyby target size.
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On [http://www.thespacereview.com/ The Space Review]
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--[[User:Ben]] 6 October 2008
  
--[[User:Ben|Ben]] 1 October 2008
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* [http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/telecon5.html MESSENGER to flyby Mercury 2nd time October 6th.] [[MESSENGER]] used solar pressure to correct the trajectory without using propellant. The [http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/multi05.html multimedia page] shows how solar sailing reduced the flyby target size.
  
====[http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=102 MESSENGER Sails on Sun’s Fire for Second Flyby of Mercury]====
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===September 5, 2008===
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* [http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=102 MESSENGER Sails on Sun’s Fire for Second Flyby of Mercury].
  
--[[User:Ben|Ben]] 5 September 2008
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===August 25, 2008===
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* [http://www.universetoday.com/2008/08/25/how-to-save-the-world-from-asteroid-impact-plastic-wrap/ Universe Today: How to Save the World From Asteroid Impact: Plastic Wrap] - First prize winner of the [http://www.spacegeneration.org/asteroid Move an Asteroid competition], Australian PhD student Mary D'Souza, proposes wrapping an asteroid with reflective film to deflect its orbit with solar radiation pressure.
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===August 2, 2008===
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* NanoSail-D launch was lost [http://kwajrockets.blogspot.com/ Kimbal Musk's blog]
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===July 31, 2008===
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*[http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/31jul_solarsails.htm Science@NASA: A Brief History of Solar Sails]
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===June 27, 2008===
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* The [[NanoSail-D]] mission is to be launched on or about July 29th, 2008.
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===June 23, 2008===
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* [http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/solar_sailing/20080623.html The Planetary Society Solar Sail Update, June 23, 2008]
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===March 18, 2008===
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*[[Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, 1917-2008]] passes away. Please share your thoughts on the discussion page.
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Contents

Space.com: Promising New Space Engines are Opening the Solar System

ESA video on advanced propulsion: "Electric ion engines; plasma drives, slingshot-style gravitational-assist maneuvers; ultra-light super-strong solar sails and other innovations are driving exploration forward beyond reliance on chemical rockets." --User:Ben 27 May 2009

The Atlantic: Across the Universe

An article about The Planetary Society's efforts to fly another solar sail demonstration mission - Cosmos 2. Their previous attempt, Cosmos 1, suffered a launch vehicle failure. --User:Ben 5 May 2009

Solar Sail Update: New Opportunities

From Space Travel. Update on The Planetary Society's solar sail activities. --User:Ben 3 April 2009


Review of Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel

On The Space Review --User:Ben 6 October 2008


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