NASA's futuristic solar sail technology prototype is getting ready to launch to space this year. Like a sail on the ocean ...

SpaceX has massively accelerated the development of space. Predicting the speed of space development requires predicting the ...

NASA's technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) has a bent boom in Earth orbit, a newly released photo shows. The ACS3 spacecraft launched April 23 to test key aspects ...

While NASA revealed that the data gathered since the sail deployment is proving to highly valuable, it added, "The mission team predicts the slight bend in one of the four booms will not inhibit the ...

Solar sails run on photons from the Sun ... according to NASA. Since its launch, however, things have not been smooth sailing for the experimental mission. A few months after its launch, the ...

Liftoff of the mission, which was for a "confidential commercial customer," took place at 5:56 a.m. ET on Tuesday (Nov. 5).

Spacecraft have always been expensive to launch, largely because of the weight of the fuel they need once in orbit. NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail experiment, launched in April ...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), a dazzling spacecraft designed to make use of the tiny amounts of radiation pressure exerted by sunlight for propulsion, is still spinning ...

Astrogram banner TIME Recognizes the Advanced Composite Solar Sail SystemIn October, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System ...

NASA's experimental Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is different, though. This vehicle could help NASA learn how to harness the Sun's limitless energy to sail through the vacuum of ...