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  • Carl Sagan’s Solar Sail Is Ready For Its First Test Flight

    Carl Sagan’s Solar Sail Is Ready For Its First Test Flight

    “There’s just a tremendously exciting prospect called solar sailing. [It] travels on the radiation and particles that come out of the sun, the wind from the sun. Because it has a constant acceleration, it can get you around the inner part of the solar system a lot faster…than the usual sorts of rocket propulsion.”