News tagged with sails
A step towards solving a maritime mystery
Students from Flinders University believe they have discovered the exact location of a Scottish sailing ship which sank in waters off Kangaroo Island more than 100 years ago.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior III makes maiden voyage
Purpose-built, ultra-modern and ready to fight environmental destruction on the high seas, Greenpeace's latest campaign ship, Rainbow Warrior III, made its maiden voyage Wednesday.
Oct 20, 2011 |
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NASA to test new solar sail technology
Solar sails, much like anti-matter and ion engines appear at first glance to only exist in science fiction. Many technologies from science fiction however, become science fact.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 14, 2011 |
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NanoSail-D satellite continues to slowly de-orbit Earth's upper atmosphere
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's nanosatellite NanoSail-D is slowly descending after successfully orbiting the Earth's upper atmosphere for 95 days since deploying its 100-square-foot sail on Jan. 20. The small satellite ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 27, 2011 |
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Solar sail flares can be seen in broad daylight
It's a calm and peaceful night. Stars twinkle in the velvety darkness overhead as a distant plane blinks silently on the horizon. You could almost hear a pin drop. That is, until the flare.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 03, 2011 |
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First-ever solar sail a 'momentous achievement'
In an unexpected reversal of fortune, NASA's NanoSail-D spacecraft has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space-age fabric 650 km above Earth, becoming the first-ever solar sail to circle our planet.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2011 |
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NASA partners on nanoSail-D amateur astronomy image contest
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has formed a partnership with Spaceweather.com to engage the amateur astronomy community to submit the best images of the orbiting NanoSail-D solar sail. NanoSail-D unfurled the first ever 100-square-foot ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 25, 2011 |
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NanoSail-D ejects: NASA seeks amateur radio operators' aid to listen for beacon signal
Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 11:30 a.m. EST, engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite ejected from Fast Affordable Scientific and Technology Satellite, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 20, 2011 |
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EU project to build Electric Solar Wind Sail
The European union has selected the Finnish Meteorological Institute to lead an international space effort whose goal is to build the largest and fastest man-made device.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 09, 2010 |
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NASA ejects nanosatellite from microsatellite in space
(PhysOrg.com) -- On Dec. 6 at 1:31 a.m. EST, NASA for the first time successfully ejected a nanosatellite from a free-flying microsatellite. NanoSail-D ejected from the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 07, 2010 |
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Optical lifting demonstrated for the first time (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in New York have predicted, observed and experimentally verified a micrometer-scale object being lifted only by a beam of laser light. Optical lifting may be useful for powering ...
Dec 07, 2010 |
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'The Year of the Solar System' to begin
To mark an unprecedented flurry of exploration which is about to begin, NASA announced yesterday that the coming year will be "The Year of the Solar System" (YSS).
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 08, 2010 |
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Could solar wind power Earth?
(PhysOrg.com) -- As we strive to find sources of alternative energy, a number of researchers continue to look to what we consider the ultimate in renewable energy -- the sun. However, on earth creating efficient ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 04, 2010 |
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Data clippers set sail to enhance future planetary missions
A new golden age of sailing may be about to begin - in space. Future missions to explore the outer planets could employ fleets of 'data-clippers', manoeuvrable spacecraft equipped with solar sails, to ship ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Setting sail in the sun
Propelled by sunlight pressure, large lightweight sails made of ultrathin aluminum-coated plastic could one day take probes to the edge of our solar system and other stars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 03, 2010 |
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