Solar sails represent one of the most elegant concepts in space exploration: using sunlight itself to propel spacecraft through the cosmos without any fuel. But these thin, light giants face a ...

From planetary rovers and asteroid sample return missions to the recent Artemis II flight above the far side of the moon, we ...

An artist’s concept of NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft in Earth orbit. NASA / Aero Animation / Ben Schweighart Earlier this year, NASA loaded a microwave-sized device packed ...

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Spacecraft outfitted with sails and propelled by the sun are no longer the stuff of science fiction or theoretical space missions. Now, a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher is taking solar ...

NASA has launched the latest attempt to test solar sail propulsion technology. The ACS3’s solar sail is made of a reflective polymer and is held by a boom made of carbon fiber composite material.

Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a U.S. commercial space company offering satellites, satellite components, and in-space transportation and hosted payload services, today announced that it was awarded a ...

A microwave-sized spacecraft with large silver wings is tumbling in orbit as engineers work to fix a glitch that’s causing it to lose orientation. After deploying four composite booms on board the ...

"I think these are not far-out type of ideas; they are not really futuristic ideas that we are talking about." ...