{"id":790180,"date":"2024-10-10T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=790180"},"modified":"2024-10-10T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T23:00:52","slug":"sail-along-with-nasas-solar-sail-tech-demo-in-real-time-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=790180","title":{"rendered":"Sail Along with NASA\u2019s Solar Sail Tech Demo in Real-Time Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><\/p>\n<p class=\"margin-0 padding-0\">The\u00a0Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, which launched in April 2024, and deployed its reflective sail in August, is currently orbiting approximately 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) above Earth and is frequently visible in the night sky to observers in the Northern Hemisphere. Fans of the spacecraft can look for the sail in the night sky using a\u00a0new feature in the NASA mobile app. Visibility may be intermittent, and the spacecraft could appear at variable levels of brightness as it moves in orbit.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-research\/sail-along-with-nasas-solar-sail-tech-demo-in-real-time-simulation\/?rand=772135\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, which launched in April 2024, and deployed its reflective sail in August, is currently orbiting approximately 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) above Earth and is frequently&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":790181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/790181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}