Named the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3, the mission's primary goal is to test the deployment of solar sails using new composite booms, which are tube-shaped materials meant to ...

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. Top News U.S. News ...

The agency's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3 for short, was one of two payloads that lifted off atop a Rocket Lab Electron vehicle from New Zealand today at 6:33 p.m. EDT (2233 GMT ...

An artist’s concept of NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft in ... After launch, the Rob Lab Electron rocket will deploy the microwave oven-sized CubeSat about 600 miles ...

A new experimental mission by NASA is now flying in orbit, aiming to use photons from the Sun to propel its way to higher altitudes. Update: April 24, 8:33 a.m. ET: Rocket Lab’s Electron blasted ...

NASA Solar Sail Sunlight-propelled space travel ACS3 Rocket Lab Electron Mahia Peninsula Photons Propulsion systems MAHIA PENINSULA, New Zealand (WKRC) - NASA launched its experimental Solar Sail ...

NASA's next-generation solar sail ready to launch into space. ... The solar sail system could launch as early as April 24 aboard a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle from New Zealand.

NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System successfully deployed thanks to Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket. Yesterday, Rocket Lab successfully deployed two satellites on the same launch while they were ...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) caught a ride to space on April 24 on Rocket Lab's Electron vehicle and, at the end of August, NASA shared in a release that its mission ...

April 23 (UPI) --Rocket Lab 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.The solar sail technology ...

The Solar Sail mission will launch on April 23 on board Rocket Lab's ... NASA’s experimental solar sail is ready to ... of the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System’s solar sail. Photo: NASA.