Shigeru Sato and Stuart Biggs of bloomberg writes:
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to launch the world’s first satellite powered by a giant solar sail to demonstrate next-generation renewable-energy technology, the agency said today.
The 20-meter (66-foot) sail, which cost about 1.5 billion yen ($16 million), will be wrapped around the “space yacht” during liftoff and will unfurl once the craft leaves the Earth’s atmosphere, JAXA said. The Ikaros will be launched by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Japan’s biggest heavy-machinery maker, from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan on May 18, the agency said.
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
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Engineers expect to lose contact with the private US moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, cutting short the mission after its sideways touchdown last week.
