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    NanoSail-D was a small satellite which was to have been used by NASA's Ames Research Center to study the deployment of a solar sail in space. It was a...
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    NanoSail-D2 was a small satellite built by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Ames Research Center to study the deployment of a solar sail in space...
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    NASA's Nanosail-D 'Sails' Home -- Mission Complete". www.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 2011-12-01. Retrieved 2012-01-04. "NASA - NanoSail-D Home...
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    solar sail based on NASA's NanoSail-D project, which was lost in August 2008 due to the failure of its Falcon 1 launch vehicle. (A second unit, NanoSail-D2...
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    carried the Trailblazer (Jumpstart-1) satellite for the US Air Force, the NanoSail-D and PREsat nanosatellites for NASA and a space burial payload for Celestis...
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  • Japanese solar sail, launched in May 2010 NanoSail-D2, the successor to NanoSail-D, launched in November 2010 LightSail, a controlled solar sail CubeSat launched...
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    launched March 2006, completed Space Technology 6 (ST6) NanoSail-D, launched August 2008, failed NanoSail-D2, launched November 2010, completed Orbiting Carbon...
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    observations in an isolated area of the sky over a short time period. NanoSail-D Humanity Star "SATCON1 Report". 25 August 2020. Archived from the original...
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  • the same launch vehicle, including two CubeSats for NASA (PRESat and NanoSail-D), and a space burial (Celestis-07) payload for Celestis, which would have...
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    Sunjammer (spacecraft) (category Solar sail spacecraft)
    2018 NanoSail-D2, the successor to NanoSail-D, launched in November 2010 Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a solar sail CubeSat planned to launch in 2022 "Short...
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    Cosmos 1 (category Solar sail spacecraft)
    vehicles led to a redesign similar to NanoSail-D, called LightSail-1, announced in November 2009. To test the solar sail concept, the Cosmos 1 project launched...
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    O'Brien, Sue (2011). "NanoSail-D: The Small Satellite That Could!". Proceedings of the AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites. "LightSail". Retrieved 17 July...
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    solar sail concept, NanoSail-D became the first such powered satellite to orbit Earth. As of August 2017, NASA confirmed the Sunjammer solar sail project...
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    were six experiments (3 NASA, 3 DoD), including: NanoSail-D, is designed to demonstrate deployment of a compact solar sail boom system that could lead to...
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    resulting in the rocket failing to reach orbit. The Trailblazer, PreSat and NanoSail-D satellites were lost in the failure, as was a space burial capsule, containing...
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    Retrieved 3 Aug 2014. "O/OREOS". space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 3 Aug 2014. "NanoSail-D". space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 3 Aug 2014. Krebs, Gunter Dirk (14 April...
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  • NanoAvionics Corp is a small satellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator founded as a spin-off from Vilnius University, Lithuania in 2014. The company...
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    Kite types (section D)
    KITE PERFORMANCE IN NATURAL WIND WITH APPLICATION TO KITE ANEMOMETRY Builder Plans Nano Sail-D. Inflated frame space kite Unique Kite Design Collection...
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    CubeSat (section Solar sail)
    solar sail as its main propulsion and stability in deep space, including the 3U NanoSail-D2 launched in 2010, and the LightSail-1 in May 2015. LightSail-2...
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    IKAROS (category Solar sail spacecraft)
    Near-Earth Asteroid Scout – Solar sail spacecraft NanoSail-D2 – Satellite designed to test concept of solar sails OKEANOS – A proposed space probe to...
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  • Cool Joke CooRie Core of Soul Country Musume Crystal Kay CY8ER CYNHN D-51 D&D D DATE Da-iCE Da Pump DAOKO Danceroid Dancing Dolls Naniwa Danshi Day After...
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  • original on February 7, 2024. Retrieved February 7, 2024. "2024 D.I.C.E. Summit & 27th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards". interactive.org. Academy of Interactive Arts...
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  • Lunarcrete Lunar space elevator MagBeam Magnetic sail McKendree cylinder Momentum exchange tether Nano electrokinetic thruster Nanoship Non-rocket spacelaunch...
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  • "List of Latin phrases" articles: List of Latin phrases sub-articles A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Assertions, such as those by Bryan...
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    16 November 2010. Anderson, Janet L. (29 November 2011). "NASA's Nanosail-D 'Sails' Home – Mission Complete". NASA. Retrieved 1 December 2019. "Delta...
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  • the nearest material would be a stainless steel alloy of iron with enough nano-scale carbon to make it hard. The metallurgist James Owen suggests that Mithril...
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  • with the later 32-bit Windows operating systems. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z This list contains 860 game titles...
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    master's thesis titled "Design of a High Performance Solar Sail System". In 1991, he earned a Ph.D. through the MIT Media Lab (formally, the Media Arts and...
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    Functions for Biomimetic Innovations. Nano-Micro Letters, 9(23), doi:10.1007/s40820-016-0125-1. Cheng, Y. T.; Rodak, D. E. (2005). "Is the lotus leaf superhydrophobic...
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  • synthetic iron oxide pigments. Tata Colours TRF Mjunction – a Tata Steel and SAIL joint venture, India's Largest B2B E-Commerce company Tayo Rolls Voltas –...
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