Rocket Lab launches NASA's solar sail technology into orbit

Washington DC (UPI) Apr 23, 2024

Rocket Lab launched NASA's new composite solar sail into space where it will undergo weeks of testing, using sunlight to propel it through the solar system. The solar sail technology lifted off aboard Rocket Lab's Electron, along with South Korean payload NEONSAT-1 in a rideshare mission called "Beginning of the Swarm," from Launch Complex 1's Pad B in New Zealand at 10:32 a.m. NZT on W