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See A Solar Sail In The Night Sky - NASA Explains How
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NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) will be visible from the ground. Find out when you can see it on the NASA app on a mobile device.
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A NASA solar sail that you can spot from the ground,
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there's a new opportunity to observe a bright NASA spacecraft sailing across the night sky.
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NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS-3, is a small satellite that's testing
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new technologies in low-Earth orbit. It recently deployed its 30-foot-wide solar sails. These are
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a means of propulsion that could allow small spacecraft to sail on sunlight. The ACS-3 solar
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sails are highly reflective and make the spacecraft appear nearly as bright as Sirius, the brightest
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star in the sky. You can find out when the solar sail spacecraft will pass over your location
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using the NASA app on your mobile device. Stay up to date on NASA's missions exploring the
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solar system and beyond at science.nasa.gov. I'm Preston Dyches from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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and that's what's up for this month!
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