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By Deploying a 14 M Sail in Full Space in May 2010, the JAXA Literally Transformed the Sunlight Into an Interplanetary Motor

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And if the light, this immaterial thing that warms us up without thinking about it, could also move a ship in the vacuum? It's exactly the bet that JAXA tried with IKAROS. A thin veil like cigarette paper, deployed millions of kilometers away from the Earth, would prove that [...]
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And if the light, this immaterial thing that warms us up without thinking about it, could also move a ship in the vacuum? It's exactly the bet that JAXA tried with IKAROS. A thin veil like cigarette paper, deployed millions of kilometers away from the Earth, would prove that [...]

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SciencePost broke the news on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.
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