Will Solar Sailing take off ?

planetary.org/solarsail/animation.html

Check out these Solar Sail videos its just a few days to launch - will it work ? What do you think ?

It would be cool if it did. Reminds me of an episode of Deep Space Nine when Sisco and his son flew a solar sail craft to a neighbouring system... of course, science fiction got them there quicker than you thought possible because of made-up radiation particles that helped them along, but still...

Seanie.

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THE PLANETARY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
SOLAR SAIL UPDATE
Launch Time Set: June 21, 2005
19:46:09 UTC (GMT)
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IN THIS ISSUE:
- Weblog - Follow Mission Events as They Happen
- Project Director Update
- New Videos from Lou Friedman and Bill Nye the Science Guy
- Send an eCard
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COSMOS 1 WEBLOG:
BRINGING YOU SOLAR SAIL MISSION
EVENTS AS THEY HAPPEN!

Follow the solar sail mission with Emily Lakdawalla's
new Cosmos 1 Weblog. Emily is the Project Operations
Assistant and Image Processing Coordinator for Cosmos 1
and will bring you updates on the Solar Sail mission
as they happen.

Update Schedule:
-Daily from June 13 - launch.
-Launch day - as news becomes available.
-Daily from launch through deployment.
-Deployment day - as news becomes available.

These updates are also available as an RSS feed.

Follow the mission at:
planetary.org/solarsailblog

Dare i set off the geek alert by mentioning the solar sail ship that count dooko used at the end of the cloe wars star wars thing. (and yes i know the correct title is attack of the clones but as someone pointed out to me how can you take a movie that has yoda acting like sonic the hedgehog seriously) :lol: