Solar Sail Mission - Cosmos 1
posted by Jen | 3:52 PM
The Planetary Society launched a mission to test out a solar sail today on a Russian rocket. Updates on the Cosmos-1 mission can be found here.
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2 Comments:
Solar sail or space weapon??? You decide:
http://chiapas.mediosindependientes.org/display.php3?article_id=113806
I can't believe I missed this launch today! I remember a few years back when they tried to do a test, which was unsuccessful. Sounds like this is having trouble too... they're not sure if the spacecraft made orbit or not.
All they know for sure is that the spacecraft is not in the orbit they expected. Maybe it didn't make orbit at all, maybe it is in an unexpected one. May take days to figure it out.
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