See A Solar Sail In The Night Sky NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) will be visible from the ground. Find out when you can see it on the NASA app on a mobile device. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ... 10/25/2024 - 12:04 pm | View Link
NASA's solar-sailing spacecraft has a bent boom and is still tumbling in Earth orbit (photo) The technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has a bent boom in Earth orbit, but NASA says it shouldn't be a big deal. 10/25/2024 - 6:14 am | View Link
Tumbling in Orbit: NASA’s Test of Advanced Solar Sail Technology Encounters Early Challenges 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 ... 10/23/2024 - 10:55 pm | View Link
NASA’s Pioneering Solar Sail Hits a Snag While Tumbling in Space After deploying four composite booms on board the experimental solar sail mission, NASA engineers observed a slight bend in one of the poles that extends along the spacecraft’s wings, the space agency ... 10/23/2024 - 9:26 am | View Link
The sun is now in its solar maximum, meaning more aurora activity This year has given stargazers plenty of opportunities to catch the colorful auroras of the northern lights flicker across the night sky ... 11-year solar cycle. Representatives from NASA ... 10/17/2024 - 8:18 am | View Link