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Just as the internet is growing dramatically, so is interest in solar sails. The last time I checked, I found 305,000 hits for "solar OR light OR space sail OR sails OR sailing" on Google.

Therefore, I will provide a selection of web pages, rather than attempt to link to everything.

Here are some links to search the internet for solar sail information:

Cosmos 1: The First Solar Sail
- KIA Systems information on Cosmos 1
Space Regatta Consortium - Znamya project - While not an actual solar sail, the Znamya project tested large lightweight mirrors in space. Solar sails are discussed as a variation of the design. Also see: Space Frontier Foundation - Znamya.

Also See: Books and Papers

Columbus 500 Space Sail Cup Video - 58 MB, 12-minute video from 1991 showing animations of several of the solar sail designs intended to compete in the the Columbus 500 Space Sail Cup, as well as introduction to solar sailing. Also includes a news segment from NBC on the Znamya space mirror and solar sailing. Video prepared by Greg Granville, one of the original creators of the video.
NASA Living with a Star: Solar Sail Technology and Applications Conference agenda. The agenda and a selection of talks and videos from the September, 2004, conference.
Spacesailing.net: Bernd Dachwald's research on solar sailing
Royal Astronomical Society - Solar Sail Mission Applications Seminar - May 10th, 2002. Contains a number of presentations about current work on solar sails.
Interstellar Sailing Ships - articles on solar and laser sails, magnetic sails, and others by Ges Seger and Alasdair Allan.

Solar Sail Construction Platform - a painting by Randy Asplundh, showing large solar sails under construction in Earth orbit. Also has a concise description of solar sailing.
Scifaiku Top Ten - Solar Sail
Paintings of solar sails by Don Dixon
Light Race - painting by Pat Rawlings depicting solar sails in a race to the moon.
Solar Sail - an illustration by Joe Bergeron for the astronomy textbook The Cosmic Perspective.
Laser Light Sail - an illustration by Rick Sternbach of a lander leaving an interstellar multi-stage laser sail to explore an alien world. Scroll down to see it.
Solar Sail - a NASA Marshall Space Flight Center illustration of a solar sail on the Astronomy Picture of the Day site.
Space Animation solar sail images - images of solar sails, laser sails, and magnetic sails.

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 ** [http://www.kiasystems.ru/english/solarsail/home.html KIA Systems information on Cosmos 1]
 * [http://src.space.ru/ Space Regatta Consortium - Znamya project] - While not an actual solar sail, the Znamya project tested large lightweight mirrors in space. Solar sails are discussed as a variation of the design. Also see: [http://www.space-frontier.org/Events/Znamya/ Space Frontier Foundation - Znamya.]
-===Missions in Development===
-* [http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/st9/index.html NASA New Millenium Program Space Technology 9]
 ===Mission Concepts===
+* [http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/st9/index.html NASA New Millenium Program Space Technology 9]
 * [http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/projects/blade/ Solar Blade Solar Sail Project] - A nanosatellite [[Heliogyro]] project at [http://www.ri.cmu.edu/ Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute.]
 ** [http://www.ri.cmu.edu/projects/project_339.html Robotics Institute: Solar Blade Solar Sail] - [http://www.ri.cmu.edu/ Robotics Institute] project page.
-* [http://aria.seas.wustl.edu/Suncatcher/default.htm Washington University: Project Aria: Suncatcher Deep Space Probe]
+<!--* [http://aria.seas.wustl.edu/Suncatcher/default.htm Washington University: Project Aria: Suncatcher Deep Space Probe]-->
 * [http://interstellar.jpl.nasa.gov/ NASA Interstellar Probe]