{"id":505,"date":"2008-06-29T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=505"},"modified":"2008-06-29T04:00:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T09:00:19","slug":"come-sail-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/505","title":{"rendered":"Come Sail Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news133794632.html\">NASA to Attempt Historic Solar Sail Deployment<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few years ago, the Planetary Society attempted a mission like NanoSail-D called Cosmos I, but the launch vehicle failed and destroyed the undeployed spacecraft. Montgomery and team believe that NanoSail-D, however, will unfurl four gossamer wings from its pod in the blackness of space like a butterfly from a cocoon: movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The structure is made of aluminum and space-age plastic,&#8221; says Montgomery. &#8220;The whole spacecraft weighs less than ten pounds. We carry it around in a special suitcase &#8212; airplane carry-on luggage size.&#8221; Fully opened, the kite-shaped sail spreads out to about 100 square feet of light-catching surface.<br \/>\n&#8220;A success would be huge for the future of space exploration,&#8221; Montgomery believes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not to burst any bubbles \u2014 a successful solar sail would be way cool \u2014 but &#8220;space age&#8221; technically just means it was invented after the Sputnik launch in 1957.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA to Attempt Historic Solar Sail Deployment A few years ago, the Planetary Society attempted a mission like NanoSail-D called Cosmos I, but the launch vehicle failed and destroyed the undeployed spacecraft. Montgomery and team believe that NanoSail-D, however, will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/505\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}