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light powered sails spacecraft

The Planetary Society’s LightSail solar sailing spacecraft is scheduled to ride a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to orbit in 2016 with its parent satellite, Prox-1.

Spacecraft That Sails Using Light? Carl Sagan's Vision is Now Real

Late astronomer Carl Sagan's concept is now becoming a reality as tests for a probe that uses light to power its sails in space are now underway.

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