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NASA's solar sail spacecraft is visible in the night sky. Here's how to see it
NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) launched in April 2024 atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket. The mission is ...
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Galileo to ACS3: How NASA’s solar sails could change future space travel
On April 23, NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3, launched to orbit aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket. A few months later, on August 29, NASA confirmed that the ACS3 solar ...
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but it has been left battered by the storm's heavy rains Olatunji Osho-Williams Amateur astronomers can use NASA's mobile app to find the ACS3 for themselves—a reflective satellite that could ...