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Liftoff! NASA’s Next-Generation Solar Sail Boom Technology Launched


NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System Mission is on its way! The spacecraft lifted off from the launch pad aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket at the company’s Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand at 10:33 a.m. on April 24 New Zealand time. The microwave oven-sized satellite is on its way

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