NASA invites the public to virtually sail along with the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System‘s space journey using NASA’s ...

NASA’s ACS3 mission shows the space agency’s commitment to solar sail technology. What does the future of solar sails look ...

An experimental NASA solar sail can be seen in the night sky as it orbits the Earth. NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) launched in April 2024 atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket.

NASA's testing a solar sail system in space, and the spacecraft that brought the tech there has snapped a photo. On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a ...

More than four months after launching to space, a solar-sailing spacecraft has successfully spread its wings above our planet. NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) caught a ride to ...

Just a few weeks ago, NASA hoisted sail on a new test craft, a satellite called the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3). It has a square sail 9 meters wide that allows it to adjust its ...

A giant solar sail recently unfurled by Nasa has been spotted “tumbling” through space. Astronomers captured the 80-square-metre object, which was unfurled last week, appearing to fluctuate in ...

Nasa has unfurled a solar sail in space for the first time, aiming to harness the propulsive power of sunlight for interstellar travel. The US space agency revealed that it had deployed the solar ...