{"id":696477,"date":"2010-03-19T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:35:58","slug":"solar-sails-take-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/696477","title":{"rendered":"Solar sails take shape"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n		An artist’s rendering shows Japan’s Ikaros solar sail in flight.
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As Japan gears up to send the first working solar sail into deep space in a couple of months, the Planetary Society is moving ahead with its own solar-sail project. You can put your name on both sails \u2026 if you act now.<\/P>
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Sunday is the deadline for adding your name to the list for Japan’s Ikaros spacecraft<\/A>, due to piggyback on the May 18 launch of the Venus-bound Akatsuki<\/A> orbiter aboard a Japanese H-2A rocket. More than 25,000 people have signed up already using the Planetary Society’s “Sail Away” Web page<\/A> – and when those are added to the Japanese list<\/A>, the tally goes up to 60,000 names.<\/P>…(read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  JAXA   An artist’s rendering shows Japan’s Ikaros solar sail in flight. As Japan gears up to send the first working solar sail into deep space in a couple of months, the Planetary Society is moving ahead with its own solar-sail project. You can put your name on both sails \u2026 if you act […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Vbv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797707,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696477\/revisions\/797707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}