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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    observations in an isolated area of the sky over a short time period. NanoSail-D "SATCON1 Report". 25 August 2020. Archived from the original on 29 November...
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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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    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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