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Japan launches solar sails
Thursday, August 12, 2004 Posted: 9:23 AM EDT (1323 GMT)
(SPACE.com) -- A piece of science fiction became fact this week as Japanese researchers launched not one, but two large solar sails, successfully deploying the gossamer-thin sheets in space during a brief rocket flight.
what NASA and the ESA couldn't do...