Do you know the current phase of the moon? Most of us don’t have any idea; nowadays we hardly need to know. But before there were streetlamps and electric lights everywhere, people watched the ...

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A domestic think tank has developed a "solar sail" to power spacecraft using solar winds. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) on Feb. 13 said it developed and demonstrated the prototype of a ...

Credit: Spaceo TAMPA, Fla. — A group of European companies has secured government funds to test an inflatable drag sail in space by 2028, designed to swiftly deorbit its host satellite after ...