NASA to Hoist Its Sail: Solar Sail Mission Gets Ready for Launch ...Middle East

An artist’s concept of NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft in orbit with the Sun behind.NASA/Aero Animation/Ben Schweighart A NASA mission testing a new way of navigating our solar system is ready to hoist its sail into space – not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is targeting launch on Tuesday, April 23 (Wednesday, April 24 in New Zealand) aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from the company’s Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand. Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket will deploy the mission’s CubeSat about 600 miles above Earth – more than twice the altitude of the International Space Stat

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