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LightSail 2 successfully unfurls its silvery solar sails, prepares to become a truly solar-powered satellite

Catch all the photons if you can

A small cube sat has become the first spacecraft in Earth’s orbit to fly using only the power of sunlight shining down on its solar sail, after it was successfully deployed on Tuesday.…

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