Still Tumbling NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), a dazzling spacecraft that is designed to exclusively make ...

NASA's technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) has a bent boom in Earth orbit, a newly released ...

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NASA's mission to advance solar sail technology through the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has shown promising signs, despite slight complications. The team is focused on collecting data to ...

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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 ...

In a buzzing corner of campus, a group of students is pushing the limits of student-led space innovation. The newly ...

Social media buzzed last night as residents across the state reported unusual streaks of light cutting through the night sky.

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 ...

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It works similarly to how wind pushes against a sail on a boat. So too can sunlight push against a spacecraft to propel it through space. Incidentally, we call these spacecraft solar sails.

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), a dazzling spacecraft designed to make use of the tiny amounts of radiation pressure exerted by sunlight for propulsion, is still spinning ...