After deploying four composite booms on board the experimental solar sail mission, NASA engineers observed a slight bend in ...

NASA's mission to advance solar sail technology through the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has shown promising signs, ...

NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), an innovative mission to test solar sail propulsion, is facing ...

NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System was launched in April, and in early September was fully deployed. The system ...

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While NASA revealed that the data gathered since the sail deployment is proving to highly valuable, it added, "The mission team predicts the slight bend in one of the four booms will not inhibit the ...

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Along with working to improve the efficiency of solar panels, NASA is also looking beyond photovoltaics to an old technology: sails. Humans have crossed open waters by sail for thousands of years. And ...

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An activist questions the legality of a retrospective mandate requiring solar rooftop installations in residential areas, ...