NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) will be visible from the ground. Find out when you can see it on the NASA ...

Santa Clara University students and NASA scientists in nearby Mountain View join forces to test innovative technology using a sun-powered sail.

100W to 2,000W: Rocket Lab’s solar arrays deliver tailored power for satellites The system can be tailored to meet satellite power requirements ranging from approximately 100 watts to greater ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind in three dimensions.

NASA launches 'incredible' new tools into space to study the universe, sun's corona Two seperate missions got off the ground Tuesday night from California, including NASA's SPHEREx telescope and ...

Rocket Lab sent five "Internet of Things" satellites to orbit on Sunday night (Nov. 24), pushing its total "spacecraft deployed" tally over 200.

The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is still being examined by mission managers before showing what it can do.

An experimental NASA solar sail can be seen in the night sky as it orbits the Earth. NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) launched in April 2024 atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket.

An experimental NASA solar sail can be seen in the night sky as it orbits the Earth. NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) launched in April 2024 atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket. The ...

ACS3—short for Advanced Composite Solar Sail System—is NASA's second stab at achieving virtually indefinite space travel powered by the Sun.

A NASA spacecraft erected a large, foil solar sail in orbit around Earth last week, after a failed attempt days earlier. However, subsequent observations of the spacecraft show it is "tumbling or ...