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NanoSail-D deploys solar sail

Submit on Sunday, January 23rd, 2011 22:58

Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite deployed its 9-square-meter polymer sail in low-Earth orbit and is operating as planned.

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