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NASA Ames solar sail mission is set to launch. Here’s why it could change space weather monitoring
with the booms and solar sail system built by NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The system’s booms, which support the solar sail, are made of stronger and lighter materials than ...
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NASA to send unmanned drone 2 miles high to study radiation during eclipse
April 5 (UPI) --NASA researchers are planning to study changes in the sun's radiation during the solar eclipse via an unmanned aircraft on Monday. The team of six researchers from NASA's Langley ...