NASA is testing an Advanced Composite Solar Sail System that 'sails' on sunlight. Norway joins the war against Russia Annie Lennox: 'I don't know if I should celebrate turning 70 because there's ...

NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail experiment, launched in April, aims to fix that. Instead of using chemical engines to maneuver and accelerate, it uses a solar sail—a large metallic film ...

Mission operators are analyzing a small bend in one of the spacecraft's composite booms. Discover the Winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair We may earn a commission when you buy through ...

NASA's technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) has a bent boom in Earth orbit, a newly released photo shows. The ACS3 spacecraft launched April 23 to test key aspects ...

While NASA revealed that the data gathered since the sail deployment is proving to highly valuable, it added, "The mission team predicts the slight bend in one of the four booms will not inhibit the ...

NASA's experimental Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is different, though. This vehicle could help NASA learn how to harness the Sun's limitless energy to sail through the vacuum of ...

NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System was launched in April, and in early September was fully deployed. The system appears to be working, but as one of the four booms deployed it had a ...

Solar sails half the size of a tennis court should harness the pressure of sunlight to propel the Advanced Composite Solar ...

The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) launched on April 23 on board Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from New Zealand. The solar sail was delivered to a Sun-synchronous orbit around 600 ...