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A New Spacecraft to Explore on Waves of Light - NYTimes.com
Topic: Space 4:48 pm EST, Nov  9, 2009

About a year from now, if all goes well, a box about the size of a loaf of bread will pop out of a rocket some 500 miles above the Earth. There in the vacuum it will unfurl four triangular sails as shiny as moonlight and only barely more substantial. Then it will slowly rise on a sunbeam and move across the stars.

A New Spacecraft to Explore on Waves of Light - NYTimes.com



 
 
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