Rocket Lab's Electron launched NASA's new composite solar sail into space where it will undergo weeks of testing, using sunlight to propel it through the solar system.
A potential new way to travel through space is set to launch aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 ...
Rocket Lab launched a South Korean Earth-observation satellite and new NASA solar-sailing tech to orbit this evening (April 23). The agency's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3 for short, ...
Kongsberg NanoAvionics has announced that the 12U nanosatellite bus it built for the in-orbit demonstration of NASA’s ...
The B.T.S. mission launched on April, 23rd, which is April 24th in New Zealand. The complex it lifted off from is located in ...
Rocket Lab launched a South Korean smallsat and a NASA solar sail experiment on the company’s fifth flight of the year April ...
NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) contacted ground operators on Tuesday at 2:30 a.m. ET as it passed over ...
Although delivered in a toaster-sized package, ACS3 will take less than 30 minutes to unfurl into an 860-square-foot sheet of ...
Solar sail technology utilizes the pressure of sunlight for propulsion, similar to how a sailboat is powered by wind, ...