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NASA’s solar sail mission is finally flying after deployment glitch: « The microwave-oven-sized cubesat unfurled its massive sail to test a novel way of traveling through space. »


The microwave-oven-sized cubesat unfurled its massive sail to test a novel way of traveling through space.

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