Monday, September 20, 2010

Data Clippers to Set Sail to Enhance Future Planetary Missions

ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2010) — A new golden age of sailing may be about to begin -- in space. Future missions to explore the outer planets could employ fleets of 'data-clippers' -- manoeuvrable spacecraft equipped with solar sails, to ship vast quantities of scientific data to back Earth.

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