An experimental NASA solar sail can be seen in the night sky as it orbits the Earth. NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail ...

Sailing on sunbeams offers a fascinating look into the science and possibilities of riding solar winds across the cosmos.

Solar sail technology could enhance early space weather warnings, improving protection for satellites and power grids.

"This is a very novel technology," he added. "We have traditionally relied on propulsion to take satellites from one place to ...

A domestic think tank has developed a "solar sail" to power spacecraft using solar winds. The Korea Aerospace Research ...

and a large solar sail would entirely control the mission. Current warning times for solar storms are only a few minutes at best, as the detectors watching for them are located in Low Earth Orbit.

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.

Lightsails are a more generic form of solar sail, in that they use radiation pressure from a light source to generate propulsion. Radiation pressure is the transfer of momentum from radiation ...

"This is a very novel technology," he added. "We have traditionally relied on propulsion to take satellites from one place to another, and solar sail is providing a new way of traveling in space ...

A domestic think tank has developed a "solar sail" to power spacecraft using solar winds. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) on Feb. 13 said it developed and demonstrated the prototype of a ...

Lightsails are a more generic form of solar sail, in that they use radiation pressure from a light source to generate propulsion. Radiation pressure is the transfer of momentum from radiation striking ...