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The NASA Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) [104] is a technology demonstration of solar sail technology for future small spacecraft. [105] It was selected in 2019 by NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) to be launched as part of the ELaNa program.
Solar Cruiser was a planned NASA spacecraft that would have studied the Sun while propelled by a solar sail. [2] [3] The mission would have supported NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes program by studying how interplanetary space changes in response to the constant outpouring of energy and particles from the Sun and how it interacts with planetary atmospheres. [3]
A giant solar sail recently unfurled by Nasa has been spotted “tumbling” through space. Astronomers captured the 80-square-metre object, which was unfurled last week, appearing to fluctuate in ...
The Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) was a mission by NASA to develop a controllable low-cost CubeSat solar sail spacecraft capable of encountering near-Earth asteroids (NEA). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] NEA Scout was one of ten CubeSats launched into a heliocentric orbit on Artemis 1 , the maiden flight of the Space Launch System , on 16 November 2022.
The NASA-funded Diffractive Solar Sailing project is developing technologies to fly spacecraft through the cosmos propelled entirely with photons from sunlight.
Sunjammer (Solar Sail Demonstrator) was a NASA mission intended to demonstrate a solar sail constructed by LGarde, but was canceled before launch.The largest solar sail made as of 2013, Sunjammer was named after a 1964 [1] Arthur C. Clarke story of the same name, Sunjammer, in which several solar sails compete in a race to the Moon. [2]
An artist's depiction of a solar sail. In December 2017, NASA released a mission concept involving the launch, in 2069, of an interstellar probe to search for signs of life on planets orbiting stars in and around the Alpha Centauri system. [1] [2] The announcement was at the annual conference of the American Geophysical Union. [3]
In April, NASA launched a next-generation solar sail demonstration aboard a Rocket Lab Electron. [66] [67] ESA EarthCARE launched on May 28. Joint mission with JAXA. NASA's GOES-U launched on June 25, with the capability to detect coronal mass ejections. JAXA's ALOS-4 launched on July 1. It carries PALSAR-3 (Phased Array type L-band Synthetic ...