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.
A potential new way to travel through space is set to launch aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 ...
Rocket Lab launched a South Korean Earth-observation satellite and new NASA solar-sailing tech to orbit this evening (April 23). The agency's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3 for short, ...
A recent study published in Phys.org suggested that a probe propelled by a solar sail could reach Mars in just 26 days. By ...
NASA is gearing up for a launch this week that will test a new way to navigate the solar system, using a large sail to catch ...
The mission will ride on board Rocket Lab's Electron, reusing one of the rocket's boosters for the first time.
Kongsberg NanoAvionics has announced that the 12U nanosatellite bus it built for the in-orbit demonstration of NASA’s ...
The B.T.S. mission launched on April, 23rd, which is April 24th in New Zealand. The complex it lifted off from is located in ...
NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System Mission is on its way! The spacecraft lifted off from the launch pad aboard ...
Although delivered in a toaster-sized package, ACS3 will take less than 30 minutes to unfurl into an 860-square-foot sheet of ...