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NASA's Solar Sail Mission Is Finally Flying After Deployment Glitch
The microwave-oven-sized cubesat unfurled its massive sail to test a novel way of traveling through space.
Despite a failed first attempt, NASA deployed its pioneering solar sail system, which will harness energy from the Sun to propel itself forward through space. NASA’s solar sail mission launched in April to test new materials and deployable structures for a propulsion system that runs on photons from the Sun. A few months after its launch, the mission’s sail became stuck when an onboard power monitor detected higher-than-expected motor currents, pausing the unfurling process.
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