Cosmos 1, the world’s first solar sail spacecraft, has shipped in preparation for a launch window that opens on June 21, 2005, traveling from the test facility of Lavochkin Association in Moscow to ...
The May issue of Reader’s Digest names Cosmos 1 one of America’s 100 Best in the category of innovations. The solar sail, a project of The Planetary Society and Cosmos Studios, was described by Reader ...
In a novel published in 1865, Jules Verne speculated that light might someday be used "as a mechanical agent" to propel a spacecraft between the planets. Today, Verne's glimpse of a far-flung future ...
The Planetary Society has decided to build a second solar sail spacecraft for the Cosmos 1 project following launch last month of a suborbital test vehicle on a converted Russian ICBM, which failed ...
The Cosmos-1 solar sail spacecraft most likely was lost shortly after launch June 21 due to a rocket failure, although a few weak signals received at ground stations are prompting scientists to hold ...
Pasadena, CA – July 20, 2001: The sub-orbital test of Cosmos 1, The Planetary Society and Cosmos Studios’ solar sail project, launched as planned yesterday from the Russian submarine, Borisoglebsk, in ...
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