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NASA Set to Launch Solar Sail for Sunlight-Propelled Space Travel
NASA’s experimental solar sail is ready to take flight in Earth orbit, using the pressure of sunlight to test a new way of propulsion through the cosmos. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System(ACS3) is scheduled for launch on Tuesday, April 23 on board Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from New Zealand. The mission will use composite…
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NASA Isn’t Giving Up on Troubled Water-Hunting Moon Cubesat
A new tactic to fire up the lunar satellite’s engines has resulted in ‘limited success’.
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NASA Is Still Trying to Salvage Its Water-Hunting Moon CubeSat
NASA engineers are struggling to get a lunar probe on the right track and have until the end of April to fix the spacecraft’s thrusters so that it is able to fly over the Moon’s South Pole.
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NASA’s Moon-Bound Lunar Flashlight Is Experiencing Thruster Issues
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight is on a mission to hunt for water ice on the Moon’s surface, but the mission appears to be in trouble as three of the craft’s four thrusters are “underperforming,” according to NASA.