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Showing posts with label solar boat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solar boat. Show all posts

Saturday, February 2, 2013

The largest-ever solar boat


American scientist’s Agency NASA makes known plans to launch in 2014, the year of the largest in the history of the solar sail. Sail area of 1.2 thousand square meters. The name of this project served as a famous story by Arthur C. Clarke of 1964 Sun jammier, which refers to the regatta "solar boat". Side length of the sail is almost 38 meters high, and it will produce L" Grade - the company that in the late twentieth century sent experimental" inflatable "antenna on the ISS.