The Planetary Society's LightSail 1 experimental solar sail is due to hitch a ride into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in April 2016, the nonprofit society announced Wednesday. "It's ...

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket had its first night launch tonight, sending 24 different spacecraft toward three different types of orbit to test a wide range of technologies. The triple-barreled rocket ...

For the first time on the West Coast, a recovered Falcon 9 first stage has made it back to port, intact. Following its role with the successful launch of ten Iridium NEXT satellites, the booster ...

A spacecraft featuring a novel method of propulsion is set to attempt the first controlled flight in Earth's orbit to be powered by solar sails. The LightSail 2—which was developed by the Planetary ...

When Falcon 1 takes off in a few weeks, one of the "piggyback" payloads will be a 4 kg (less than 10 lbs) NASA satellite about the size of a bread box that can unfurl into a 10 meter square solar sail ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A project from Bill Nye's nonprofit organization is set to become the first spacecraft propelled by sunlight to orbit Earth. SpaceX is launched its Falcon Heavy rocket early ...

LightSail-2’s large reflective sails will unfurl in approximately a week, capturing the momentum of light from the sun and using that to propel the spacecraft. The news: SpaceX successfully launched ...

SOLAR sails just can’t find a fair wind. Another space mission intended to prove the technology, which is designed to propel spacecraft using only the pressure of sunlight, has failed to reach space ...