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[[File:LGarde20mDemoSail.jpg|thumb|Sunjammer will be derived from a 20x20m solar sail ground demo L'Garde and NASA tested in 2005.]]
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[http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/solarsail/solarsail_overview.html NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist] is funding L'Garde to demonstrate flight of a solar sail for use in science and operational (e.g. space weather, environmental monitoring, communications) missions.
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[http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/home/index.html NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist] awarded a contract 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 monitoring, communications) missions. Sunjammer was cancelled in 2014.
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==Links==
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* [http://sunjammermission.com/ Sunjammer Solar Sail Mission Mission]
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* [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/solarsail/solarsail_overview.html Solar Sail Demonstration (The Sunjammer Project)] at NASA
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* [http://www.lgarde.com/programs/space-propulsion/sunjammer/ Sunjammer] at L'Garde
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Latest revision as of 12:37, 11 February 2016

Sunjammer was derived from a 20x20m solar sail ground demo L'Garde and NASA tested in 2005.

NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist awarded a contract to L'Garde to demonstrate flight of a solar sail for use in science and operational (e.g. space weather, environmental monitoring, communications) missions. Sunjammer was cancelled in 2014.

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