NASA Solar Sail Satellite Ejects from Mothership in Space

A small NASA satellite carrying a folded-up solar sail ejected from its mothership in low-Earth orbit early Monday morning (Dec. 6), marking a key success in NASA’s efforts to develop and deploy solar-sail technology.

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