Japanese Solar Sail Deploys Successfully

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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Japanese Solar Sail Deploys Successfully

id="attachment_66226" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 522px">href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ikaros_4_e.jpg">src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ikaros_4_e.jpg" alt="" title="An image from IKAROS, showing the completion of the second stage deployment of the solar sail. Credit: JAXA" width="512" height="410" class="size-full wp-image-66226" />class="wp-caption-text">An image from IKAROS, showing the completion of the second stage deployment of the solar sail. Credit: JAXA

New images and data from the IKAROS href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-sun/solar/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">solar sail show the thin solar film has deployed and expanded successfully and is now generating power. Since its launch on May 21, 2010, teams from the Japan href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/spaceflight/aerospace/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), have been painstakingly checking out all the systems on IKAROS before deploying the sail, and even the process of unfurling the sail had been a slow process. JAXA began to deploy the sail on June 3, analyzing each step before proceeding. Yesterday, JAXA released a photo of a partially deployed sail (below), but didn't offer much information as far as the status. But they now have confirmed that the sail was successfully expanded and is generating power. IKAROS is now about 7.7 million km from href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/earth/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Earth./> (...)
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