Cool. They're trying it again.
Aug. 7th, 2003 01:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusCosmos I - take 2: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&ncid=96&e=1&u=/space/20030806/sc_space/ridingthesunmaidenflightloomsforsolarsailsatellite
The Planetary Society is launching a satellite which is propelled by a solar sail. A slow, but exceedingly cheap way of moving around in space.
The coolest thing about this is that it's a purely civilian group doing this, developing the technology with no government money, and launching it using an old submarine-launched ICBM that Russia is launching for them...
More detail and better hype can be found here.
The Planetary Society is launching a satellite which is propelled by a solar sail. A slow, but exceedingly cheap way of moving around in space.
The coolest thing about this is that it's a purely civilian group doing this, developing the technology with no government money, and launching it using an old submarine-launched ICBM that Russia is launching for them...
More detail and better hype can be found here.
