electric solar sail Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:38:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 NASA Uses World’s Largest Solar Sail for Asteroid-Exploring Missions https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nasa-uses-worlds-largest-solar-sail-for-asteroid-exploring-missions-20130214/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nasa-uses-worlds-largest-solar-sail-for-asteroid-exploring-missions-20130214/#respond Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:38:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=33195 In 2014, NASA will be launching the world’s largest solar sail ever built. Sunjammer, the solar sail spacecraft, will act as a test bed for the new technology. If successful, the technology will be used in future missions to near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and maybe even missions beyond the solar system. The name Sunjammer was taken […]

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