Tag: solar sail

Look Ma! No Mylar! : NASA’s E-Sail Promises Higher Speeds to Far Away Places
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Look Ma! No Mylar! : NASA’s E-Sail Promises Higher Speeds to Far Away Places

A fascinating experiment is underway at the Marshall Space Flight Center to demonstrate the potential of a new form of solar sail which does away with the fabric entirely. Instead of attempting to deploy a troublesome sail made of mylar, the E-Sail uses instead a series of thin aluminum wires spun out from the slowly […]

Posted in: Advanced propulsion, NASA
The Cubesat Revolution Heads for Deeper Space
By 2016.02.02 0 Comments Read More →

The Cubesat Revolution Heads for Deeper Space

NASA held a press conference at the Marshall Space Flight Center today to announce the selection of a seven cubesats which will catch a ride to deep space on the maiden flight of the Space Launch system in 2018. Altogether the space agency plans on filling 13 slots out of a total possible number of […]

Posted in: CubeSats
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