NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) launched in April 2024 atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket. The mission is ...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has successfully deployed its solar sail, marking a significant achievement in ...

And we believe it will fundamentally advance the technology of spaceflight. Solar sailing is elegant not only in concept but also in its efficiency. Once in orbit, there’s no fuel needed.

As Oumuamua traveled through our solar system, it didn't follow the normal ... It works similarly to how wind pushes against a sail on a boat. So too can sunlight push against a spacecraft to ...

Solar sails provide us a cost-effective way to go ... In addition to having a spacecraft in the center with spools and a sail deployment system, it will include four sails, which are being built ...

The KARI-developed sail measures 10 m both horizontally and vertically, bigger than the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System of NASA released in April last year, and is also light being made of ...

Flying on the power of the sun is definitely not a new idea, but it usually involves a battery between the solar panels and the propulsion system. [ukanduit] decided to lose the battery completely ...

The satellite is the space agency's first attempt at utilizing solar sails in low-Earth orbit, and may mark a huge step towards achievable interstellar travel. NanoSail-D will be NASA's first ...

The solar system's journey around the Milky Way's center takes it through varying galactic environments. "Imagine it like a ship sailing through varying conditions at sea," explains Efrem Maconi ...

Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) has developed a solar sail deployment device that can be applied to a spacecraft traveling with solar wind as its power source. KARI noted that it ...