Sentence examples for solar sailing from inspiring English sources

It is not exactly the Enterprise, but Sunjammer will be boldly going where no solar sailing spacecraft has gone before," Popular Science says.

We could have a fleet of solar sailing vessels plying interplanetary space, returning soil samples from Venus, Mars, and the asteroid belt for laboratory study on Earth.

The tiny satellite will unfurl four solar-powered Mylar sails after a month in space, for a first short test of solar sailing near Earth.

Nasa launched Messenger toward Mercury in 2004, and the vessel borrowed gravity and sailed the pressure of sunlight ("solar sailing") for seven years, looping its way around planets until finally it reached orbit around the planet closest to the sun.

Kind of like supercharged solar sailing.

NASA isn't the only organization to experience these kinds of headaches with solar sailing.

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency has tested the unfurling of solar sails on sub-orbital rockets, but no one has put solar sails into orbit.

After being ejected, a CubeSat might unfurl antennas or a solar sail.

IKAROS was the first interplanetary spacecraft to use a solar sail for propulsion.

In principle, a solar sail can do anything a regular sail can do, like tacking.

At one time or another, many of NASA's laboratories have studied solar sails.