Episode 165: Sailing the Solar System
via nasa.gov
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Andres Almeida (Host): Wouldn’t it be nice if your spacecraft could simply unfurl a sail like a sailboat and let nature do the rest? No expensive fuel, no risk of engine problems. Well, NASA is demonstrating a technology that could work on this principle. It’s called a solar sail, and instead of using wind to […]