Over the last two decades, Les Johnson and his team of engineers have quietly been pushing NASA into a new era of space exploration while nobody was paying attention. As an engineer at the ...

To stay in such an orbit, a spacecraft would need another constant outward force. A solar sail could provide that continuous push, and the instruments on board could detect a CME and send us a ...

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

It works similarly to how wind pushes against a sail on a boat. So too can sunlight push against a spacecraft to propel it through space. Incidentally, we call these spacecraft solar sails.

Subscribe Today to get the latest ExtremeTech news delivered right to your inbox.

Solar Frontier has supplied its CIS solar panels to Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (K Line), one of Japan's largest shipping companies, in order to power one of its newest environmentally friendly ...