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February 2, 2011

NASA solar sail makes unlikely comeback

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In an unexpected reversal of fortune, NASA's NanoSail-D spacecraft has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space-age fabric 650 km above Earth, becoming the first-ever solar sail to circle our planet.

Source: http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3984/nasas-first-solar-sail-makes-unlikely-comeback

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