NASA came to see our solar sail quadrant test deployment yesterday before shutdown

timmyc · 10-01-2013, 12:57 PM

I work for a small aerospace company working on a technical demonstration mission for NASA. This test deployment of one quadrant (four of these on our spacecraft) was on 9/30/13, the day before the US Government shut down.

Beam and Sail, Stowed

Halfway Deployed

Fully Deployed Sail Quadrant

Fully Deployed

Hawkeye · 10-01-2013, 02:00 PM

Pretty cool. Looks like you have a fun job!

Chihuahua · 10-01-2013, 02:05 PM

very cool. i just got done watching a show on the science channel where they discussed solar sails.

kmarei · 10-01-2013, 08:57 PM

This is how you should use the sail

UncleWede · 10-02-2013, 05:20 PM

So, when do we leave?

timmyc · 10-02-2013, 06:26 PM

Q3 2014 on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

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