Photos: Solar sail to ride the sunbeams

Photos: Solar sail to ride the sunbeams

The Cosmos 1 spacecraft, seen here in an artist's rendition, will use an exotic fuel to travel through space: sunbeams. Photons from the sun are captured by a large pinwheel structure known as a solar sail.

June 21, 2005 3:55 AM PDT

Photo by: The Planetary Society

 

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