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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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    received on the afternoon of 19 January 2011. NanoSail-D2 was originally built as a ground spare for the NanoSail-D satellite, which was launched aboard a Falcon...
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    called NanoSail-D and sometimes NanoSail-D2. ... Dean: The project is just NanoSail-D. NanoSail-D2 is the serial #2 version. "NASA - NASA's NanoSail-D Satellite...
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    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, was successfully...
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    LightSail, a controlled solar sail CubeSat to launch in 2018 NanoSail-D2, the successor to NanoSail-D, launched in November 2010 Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a...
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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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    payloads to low Earth orbit. There were six experiments (3 NASA, 3 DoD), including: NanoSail-D, is designed to demonstrate deployment of a compact solar sail...
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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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    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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    Adams, Charles; Laue, Greg; Kitts, Christopher; O'Brien, Sue (2011). "NanoSail-D: The Small Satellite That Could!". Proceedings of the AIAA/USU Conference...
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  • portal IKAROS, a Japanese solar sail, launched in May 2010 NanoSail-D2, the successor to NanoSail-D, launched in November 2010 LightSail, a controlled solar...
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    original on 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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    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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    [when?][citation needed] As further proof of the solar sail concept, NanoSail-D became the first such powered satellite to orbit Earth. As of August 2017...
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    piggyback slots on more launch vehicles led to a redesign similar to NanoSail-D, called LightSail-1, announced in November 2009. To test the solar sail...
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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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    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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  • Data Center. Retrieved 1 October 2012. Erwin, Sandra (14 March 2022). "DoD decommissions two missile-tracking satellites after 12 years in orbit". SpaceNews...
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    of missions to Venus Near-Earth Asteroid Scout – Solar sail spacecraft NanoSail-D2 – Satellite designed to test concept of solar sails OKEANOS – A proposed...
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    [citation needed] There are six experiments on the FASTSAT bus, including NanoSail-D2, which is itself a nanosatellite – the first satellite launched from...
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    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 successfully...
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    launched a quick reaction launch vehicle here on April 24. Wilke, Gregory D. (2006). An Overview of Kodiak Launch Complex Operational Weather Support...
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  • projectPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Lucy (spacecraft) NanoSail-D2 – Satellite designed to test concept of solar sails Near-Earth Asteroid...
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