Solar sails next appearence?

This appears to be the next solar sail event after the Japanese trials
earlier this year.

From the BBC, at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3999293.stm:

quote
Solar sail craft gets launch date

The spacecraft uses photons from the Sun to propel it
The world's first spacecraft to use a solar sail for propulsion is set
to be launched from a submerged Russian submarine on 1 March next
year.

Cosmos-1 has been built by space advocacy group The Planetary Society
and will deploy eight triangular sail blades once it is in space.
[...]
/quote

/dps

So anybody heard what the 'Star of Tolerance' is getting up to?

Interesting. I hadn't heard this since the 1996-ish variant:

http://www.darksky.org/newsltrs/20-29/nl25.html#star
http://www.aas.org/~light/pollution_star_4.html

But the new (2001) one appears to have a solar sail too:

http://www.planetaryvision.net/FoundingAlliance.html

which links to http://www.staroftolerance.org/ (which I didn't look
at).

Here's an astronomer complaining about it:
http://harvee.org/pipermail/nelpag/2001/000147.html

I'd be pretty surprised if it happens: something like this which is
being done for symbolic benefits is particularly vulnerable to
controversy.

"Jim Kingdon" wrote ...
So anybody heard what the 'Star of Tolerance' is getting up to?
[...]
which links to http://www.staroftolerance.org/ (which I didn't look
at).

There hasn't been anything new there since the middle of 2003 or
so and the English page disappeared a while back.

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:18:44 -0600, dave schneider
wrote:

This appears to be the next solar sail event after the Japanese trials
earlier this year.

From the BBC, at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3999293.stm:

quote
Solar sail craft gets launch date
The spacecraft uses photons from the Sun to propel it
The world's first spacecraft to use a solar sail for propulsion is set
to be launched from a submerged Russian submarine on 1 March next
year.

Cosmos-1 has been built by space advocacy group The Planetary Society
and will deploy eight triangular sail blades once it is in space.
[...]
/quote

/dps


A quick check of http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/ indicates this date
still holds.

"Launch Date: *March 1, 2005*

Days : Hours : Minutes : Seconds
A PROJECT of THE PLANETARY SOCIETY and COSMOS STUDIO"


/dps

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