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totally forgot about ikaros. you're completely right, of course. Lightsail is a smaller, cheaper, privately (and crowd) funded solar sail project.
by devindotcom 11y ago
totally forgot about ikaros. you're completely right, of course. Lightsail is a smaller, cheaper, privately (and crowd) funded solar sail project.
- fapjacks 11y agoHow long ago was Ikaros designed? I've been a member of the Planetary Society since I was a child and this has been talked about since at least the early 90s, iirc. This has been a major goal of the Planetary Society for years and years and years, finally overcoming the setbacks with a successful crowdfund. I don't doubt Ikaros may have been conceived much earlier, considering how spacecraft design takes time.