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kaydex.bsky.social
Belated B-Day gift for my buddy @duskaryis.bsky.social

Happy Bday Cat Bro!
#furry #sci-fi #solarsail
September 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
hamsta180.bsky.social
PLP335_1: Cold Storage #art #DigitalArt #DigitalPainting #Photoshop #Sketch #SpeedPaint #SciFi #SkyFi #ScienceFiction #Vehicle #Spaceship #SolarSail
Digital painting of commercial spaceship, equiped with a solar sail and large radiators
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
commanderkaya.bsky.social
Great starships setting sail. #scifi #solarsail #spaceship
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 AM
kitprincess.bsky.social
thinking about the potential avenues for spaceships and orgasns is interesting, like a solarsail being so fragile and needing to know if its damaged meaning you can be super gentle and soft with them can totally give a ship a dry orgasm

but what about other parts? like the reactor? the engines?
zinzrinz.bsky.social Zinzrinz @zinzrinz.bsky.social · Apr 28
sailparts are big and fragile and you need to know where they're damaged if you can effect repairs. yes.
kitprincess.bsky.social Snuff Daughter @kitprincess.bsky.social · Apr 28
do you think solar sails for spaceships are really sensitive, do they shiver and whimper when you accidently brush against them
July 2, 2026 at 9:14 PM
aidansabre.bsky.social
Be Data and paint birds from a dream. Be Ben Sisko and build your own solarsail spaceship. Be the doctor and take holo photos. Be Trip and play harmonica after work.

It’s on us to make this culture of appreciation of history, art and craftsmanship happen, in parallel to where technology is going.
August 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
marcolangbroek.bsky.social
My first positive detection of the 12U bus of the #ACS 3 #SolarSail (with the sail not yet deployed, so 12U bus only)
From Leiden, the Netherlands, at a range of 1118 km.
Framestack of 102 frames with a WATEC 902H2S + 1.2/85 mm lens.
stack of 102 video frames, showing the faint trail by the 12U ACS 3 bus at lower right. WATEC 902H2 Supreme + Samyang 1.2/85 mm
May 3, 2024 at 10:43 PM
marcolangbroek.bsky.social
I observed @NASA 's #ACS3 #Solarsail pass over Leiden, the Netherlands at 20:26 UTC (29 Aug).
It was not particularly bright (briefly mag +3, most of the time much fainter). Canon EOS 80D + 1.4/35 mm lens at F2.0, 5 seconds ISO 800.
image showing the trail of ACS 3 amidst the stars above part of the roof of the author's house in Leiden.
August 29, 2024 at 9:24 PM
ainewsbrew.bsky.social
Light propels through space
Solar sails catch sun's photons
Warning storms ahead

NOAA Developing Solar Sail Satellites for Advanced Space Weather Monitoring

Read the full article: https://ainewsbrew.com/article/2903

#SpaceTech #SolarSail #NOAA #SpaceWeather #NASA
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February 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
tinamcasey.bsky.social
Florida startup dives into space solar race

#solarpower #solarenergy #space #satellites #spacesolar #solar #innovation #startups #florida #usa #unitestates #aerospace #solarsail #renewableenergy #energy #greenergy #cleanenergy

cleantechnica.com/2024/08/01/1...
Florida Startup Aims To Beam Space Solar To Satellites
The new Florida startup Star Catcher Industries is launching a space solar network aimed at beaming solar energy from space to satellites.
cleantechnica.com
August 4, 2024 at 1:30 PM
marcolangbroek.bsky.social
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This is a very fragmentary brightness curve. NOTE: peaks are saturated, and during some lows it was invisible. Lost track of it a couple of times. But very clear there is a significant brightness variation #ACS3 #solarsail
diagram of brightness variation over time
September 2, 2024 at 9:16 AM
millymollymo.bsky.social
Hiya, Womble. I'm catching up on your blog for my TBR. This week's read for me: Challenging The Tides An Anthology of Hope. (proofing before our Fantasycon launch!)
Image shows Science Fiction/Solarpunk ebook cover of "Challenging The Tides An Anthology of Hope". A black and white lighthouse rests on a golden ploughed field - Lower right. Lower left is the blue sea with a 'solarsail' ship. The sun is centre middle over the title text. The background is resembles a digital representation of a mirco-chip, in shades of cream.
September 6, 2026 at 11:49 AM
blipsnewslinks.bsky.social
Did you know...?

At certain times during the week of September 8th, the largest ever "solar sail" will be visible in the sky above London.

#NASA #solarsail #London

LEARN ABOUT THE DETAILS AT blips.news!
Did you know...? At certain times during the week of September 8th, the largest ever "solar sail" will be visible in the sky above London. #NASA #solarsail #London LEARN ABOUT THE DETAILS AT blips.news!
September 10, 2024 at 1:13 AM
huubeggen.bsky.social
Unexpectedly the sky cleared tonight. So here are planet #Venus (at right in 1st pic), space station #ISS entering the Earth's shadow at 18:36 CET, and Starlink #G9-12, launched yesterday. I did also observe NASA's #ACS3 #SolarSail, but camera failed. @leonoor.bsky.social @daveatcogs.bsky.social
Image shows a night view of the tower of Lebuinus church in Deventer, with planet Venus at right shing through a tree. At far left in the dark sky a star is visible - star sigma in constellation Sagittarius. The image shows a streak in a dark sky, starting bright and fading. This is space station ISS entering the earth's shadow. The image shows two blue streaks in a dark sky. These are clusters of Starlink satellites launched the day before.
November 19, 2024 at 7:55 PM
mickeykats.bsky.social
I'll post a thread tomorrow, but for now sharing our new preprint: "Thermal management and photonic design of solar and laser sails"

We discuss light sails (both solar sails and laser-driven sails) from the perspective of optical materials and thermal management minds.wisc.edu/items/dfbe2a... 🧪💡
Fig. 1. Existing and future solar- and laser-sail missions. Solar sails (driven by momentum from sunlight) and laser sails (driven by momentum from an external laser) are represented together on a distance scale. The IKAROS mission (2010), the first successful solar-sail demonstration, sailed near Venus orbit (0.7 AU from the sun). High velocity solarsail concepts envision probes reaching ~100 km/s (~20 AU/year or ~0.0003𝑐) using gravity-assist maneuvers from the sun, enabling exploration of the outer solar system and beyond the heliosphere. Another future sail concept is the laser sail, which can take advantage of existing laser technology (~1 MW of power) to enable interplanetary exploration. The most audacious proposals envision ~1 GW laser arrays that could enable interstellar travel, for example to Proxima Centauri, the Sun’s nearest star. Voyagers 1 and 2, launched in 1977, are included as benchmarks of conventional spacecraft, currently just past the heliosphere at ~100 AU. (Inset) Acceleration (𝑎) as a function of sail areal density (𝑆/𝑚)for light intensities (𝐼) between 1 kW and 1 GW. The bands represent reflectivity (𝑅) ranging from 0.1 to 1, assuming negligible absorption (𝐴). Light sails span different propulsion regimes across near-earth, solar system, and interstellar space exploration, based on different combinations of sail areal densities and driving light intensities (assuming illumination across entire sail area).
June 30, 2026 at 3:27 AM
tinamcasey.bsky.social
Space solar heading to Earth with pit stop at LEO satellites

#solarpower #solarenergy #space #satellites #spacesolar #solar #innovation #startups #florida #usa #unitestates #aerospace #solarsail #renewableenergy #energy #electricity #electrification #cleanenergy

cleantechnica.com/2024/08/01/1...
Florida Startup Aims To Beam Space Solar To Satellites
The new Florida startup Star Catcher Industries is launching a space solar network aimed at beaming solar energy from space to satellites.
cleantechnica.com
August 1, 2024 at 7:16 PM
thelastomnitect.bsky.social
Oh god, that's so beautiful. And such immaculate vibes~✨

Just give me a solarsail and let me roadtrip around SOL a bit. Take some pics, make a smoothie and catch the sunrise on Deimos.
February 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
huubeggen.bsky.social
Pretty bright high eastern pass of NASA's #ACS3 #SolarSail this evening 3 December 2024. Images taken from 18:14 to 18:16 UT. Exposure times 8 seconds. It was flaring less regular than it used to do in the past two months. @annqld1.bsky.social @leonoor.bsky.social @sjbastro.bsky.social
First of three images showing a rather cloudy sky with enough gaps to see stars and a short trail varying in brightness. This is the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) satellite from NASA. In the first and third image the satellite varies in brightness during the 8 second exposure time of the images. In the second image its brightness remains stable at its maximum shown during the pass.
December 3, 2024 at 6:51 PM
rmatheists.bsky.social
NASA's Solar Sail Propels Space Exploration Forward

rockymountainatheists.ca/post/nasas-s...

#RockyMountainAtheists #rma #WesternCanadaReason #wecanreason #freedomfromreligion #criticalthinking #skeptics #science #NASA #solarsail #spaceexploration
NASA's Solar Sail Propels Space Exploration Forward - Rocky Mountain Atheists
New evidence strengthens the claim that phosphine exists in Venus' clouds, suggesting potential signs of life.
rockymountainatheists.ca
September 12, 2024 at 7:36 PM
tinamcasey.bsky.social
Today LEO satellites, tomorrow the Earth

#solarpower #solarenergy #space #satellites #spacesolar #solar #innovation #startups #florida #usa #unitestates #aerospace #solarsail #renewableenergy #energy #electricity #electrification #cleanenergy #greenenergy

cleantechnica.com/2024/08/01/1...
Florida Startup Aims To Beam Space Solar To Satellites
The new Florida startup Star Catcher Industries is launching a space solar network aimed at beaming solar energy from space to satellites.
cleantechnica.com
August 2, 2024 at 4:24 PM
ainewsbrew.bsky.social
New Solar Sail Satellite SWIFT to Revolutionize Space Weather Prediction
ainewsbrew.com/article/5214

#SpaceWeather #SolarSail #SatelliteTechnology #SpaceScience #Innovation
New Solar Sail Satellite SWIFT to Revolutionize Space Weather Prediction | AI News Brew
In a significant leap forward for space weather forecasting, a team of heliophysicists is developing SWIFT, a next-generation satellite constellation equipped with solar sail technology. This innovati
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July 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
thenewsink.bsky.social
NASA’s biggest missions often begin years earlier as experimental technologies.

During Artemis II, NASA’s optical communications system sent more than 484 GB of data.

thenewsink.com/nasa-space-t...

#NASA #SpaceTechnology #SpaceExploration #LaserCommunications #SolarSail #Mars #TheNewsInk
NASA Space Technology: 10 Powerful Innovations Shaping Deep-Space Exploration - The News Ink™ | World News | Sports | Technology | Business
NASA space technology explained through nuclear propulsion, laser communications, Moon power, robotics, ISRU, navigation and future Mars exploration.
thenewsink.com
September 9, 2026 at 9:24 AM
cbrovld.bsky.social
Now that its reflective sail has deployed fully open in orbit, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System can be seen in the night sky from many locations across the world! #AdvancedCompositeSolarSailSystem #AmesResearchCenter #NASA #NASAAmes #SolarSail #SolarSailDemo
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September 10, 2024 at 7:31 AM
nasapodsky.bsky.social
Astronomy Picture from 28/01/2011

NanoSail-D

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110128.htm<a href="/hashtag/NanoSailD" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#NanoSailDa#SolarSailo#SpaceExplorationl#NASAo#Spacecrafta#Science##Technologyc#Kepler #Innovationn#SpaceTravelc#Astronomys#SolarWindo#LowEarthOrbitrthOrbit
Stunning image of NASA's NanoSail-D, the first solar sail spacecraft in low Earth orbit, its 10 square meter sail unfurled against the backdrop of Earth. The sail glistens in sunlight, showcasing a remarkable feat of space exploration inspired by Johannes Kepler's 400-year-old vision.
May 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
dbcurren.bsky.social
“The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System ( #ACS3) mission aims to test the efficacy of a new type of #solarsail — a device potentially capable of propelling #spaceships to faster-than-currently-available speeds using #radiation pressure exerted by #sunlight” www.livescience.com/space/space-...
NASA's newly unfurled solar sail has started 'tumbling' end-over-end in orbit, surprising observations show
A NASA spacecraft erected a large, foil solar sail in orbit around Earth last week, after a failed attempt days earlier. However, subsequent observations of the spacecraft show it is "tumbling or wobb...
www.livescience.com
September 5, 2024 at 12:51 PM