Our Advanced Composite Solar Sail System mission is on TIME’s list of the Best Inventions of 2024!
The spacecraft is testing next generation solar sail composite boom technologies that will help enable future exploration missions at the Moon, Mars and beyond. https://t.co/Ih3S1iGYv1
Using the *PRELIMINARY* USGS streamgage located in the Ashville, NC area, this was a roughly 14,000 year flood. Every year, this flood has a 0.007158% chance of happening. The estimated discharge was 248,862 gallons per second at peakflow. Analysis breakdown below👇
This is a lie! Actually @nationalguard has an amazing operation out of Asheville….thousands of them! More helicopters I’ve ever seen in an operation….tones of goods dropped….I see civilian planes landing, civilian helicopters delivering. As @WCKitchen helicopter no issues!
Have you been able to #SpotTheSail?
Captured from Zion National Park, our Advanced Composite Solar Sail can be seen in the night sky. Use the #NASA_App sightings tool to find out when it could appear overhead near you!
NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is cruising around Earth, orbiting the planet, and you can catch a glimpse!
Download the NASA app to see if ACS3 is sailing through the skies near you: https://t.co/tyT0wTIwc4
What's up for September? 🌕
FIVE planets in the dawn and evening skies, and a Sept. 17 supermoon with a partial lunar eclipse. Plus, don't forget about #InternationalObserveTheMoonNight on Sept. 14!
More skywatching tips: https://t.co/uJEdCveIcb
Sail deployment achieved!
Our Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has successfully unfurled its sail & will use sunlight for propulsion as it orbits Earth, testing next-generation technologies that will help enable future missions at the Moon & beyond: https://t.co/s0kDJ8VxkE
We've got confirmation: earlier this week, @NASA_Technology's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System phoned home and achieved successful two-way communications!
Over the next one to two months, the solar sail will get ready for the next phase of the mission: deployment and maneuvering testing.
Get the latest on the solar sail here: https://t.co/6S5HdPMy4k