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==Fourth International Symposium on Solar Sailing==
... will focus on recent advances in solar sailing technologies and near-term solar sailing missions after the success of Japanese IKAROS and American LightSai
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[[File:LGarde20mDemoSail.jpg|thumb|Sunjammer was derived from a 20x20m solar sail ground demo L'Garde and NASA tested in 2005.]]
...tract to [http://www.lgarde.com/ L'Garde] to demonstrate flight of a solar sail for use in science and operational (e.g. space weather, environmental monit
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title = {Solar Reflector Gravity Tractor for Asteroid Collision Avoidance},
title = {Hovering Control of a Solar Sail Gravity Tractor Spacecraft for Asteroid Deflection},
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These links provide a good source of technical literature on solar sails.
...h for [http://www.scientificcommons.org/#search_string=solar%20sail "solar sail"]
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...beSail]] would test a new solar sail design based on long, thin ribbons of sail material with small satellites at the ends to steer them.
== Solar Sail Readies for Early Warning Mission ==
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... shine reflected sunlight at the south pole of the moon with a small solar sail to help find volatiles like water. It has changed to using lasers to illumi
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...which the [[LightSail]] spacecraft will test deployment of the sail. Solar sail flight test will happen on a later flight.
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... the spacecraft. The first test on May 20th, 2015, tests deployment of the sail.
... an outrach campaign to make broad public awareness of the LightSail solar sail and cubesat technology, so it can be put to work in future space missions.
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...ml The LightSail team is preparing to run the deployment test of the solar sail on Wednesday June 3rd, 2015.] Deployment will be executed manually, and is
613 B (79 words) - 17:52, 7 June 2015
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...e Planetary Society's LightSail spacecraft successfully deployed its solar sail.] The link includes instructions on how to view the spacecraft using the [h
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...rth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout)] is a mission to fly a 6-unit Cubesat solar sail spacecraft by an asteroid. It is a joint project between the Jet Propulsion
...asa.gov/search.jsp?R=20160008143 Design and Development of NEA Scout Solar Sail Deployer Mechanism]
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