NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) can be seen with the naked eye as it orbits Earth, and can be tracked with a helpful app. An experimental NASA solar sail can be seen in the ...

Your donation makes it possible for us to keep doing this important work, keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election A giant solar sail recently unfurled by Nasa has been ...

IFCA Grand Slam Fin Slalom World Championships, held in Hvide Sande, Denmark, made history with a world-first, all-in format ...

NASA / Aero Animation / Ben Schweighart Earlier this year, NASA loaded a microwave-sized device packed with a four-piece, 860-square-foot, ultra-thin solar sail aboard a rocket and launched it on ...

Don't worry, it's doing fine. On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a piece of technology that could very well revolutionize the way we think about ...

On Aug. 29, the ASC3 spacecraft deployed its 860-square-foot solar sail from an altitude about 600 miles above Earth—roughly twice as high as the International Space Station. While in orbit ...

A NASA spacecraft erected a large, foil solar sail in orbit around Earth last week, after a failed attempt days earlier. However, subsequent observations of the spacecraft show it is "tumbling or ...

TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A new kind of solar power: NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System recently hitched a ride to space on Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle.

This artist’s concept shows the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft sailing in space using the energy of the Sun. © NASA/Aero Animation/Ben Schweighart ...

Your donation makes it possible for us to keep doing this important work, keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election Nasa has unfurled a solar sail in space for the first ...

NASA has released the first look at its Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) in orbit. Although the agency describes the device as currently “slowly tumbling” around the planet at an ...

Nasa has unfurled a solar sail in space for the first time, aiming to harness the propulsive power of sunlight for interstellar travel. The US space agency revealed that it had deployed the solar sail ...