Satellite To Use
Carnegie Mellon University has designed a solar sail that it hopes to see launched into space in 2001 as the only means of propulsion and attitude control for a satellite. Radiation pressure would let a satellite ride the solar wind. Four long blades give CMU's Solar Blade Heliogyro Nanosatellite...
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