Alaska Aerospace Corporation / U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory / Orbital Sciences Corp. / Nanosatellite Missions Office / /
Event
Business Partnership / Product Release / /
Facility
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center / Kirtland Air Force Base / Ames Research Center / NASA Facts National Aeronautics and Space Administration George C. Marshall Space Flight Center / Alaska Aerospace Corporation’s Kodiak Launch Complex / U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory / /
IndustryTerm
nano-class satellite / interstellar travel / electronics / chemical fuel spacecraft / boom spool manufacturing problems / energy / /
Organization
NASA Facts Mission / United States Army / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Von Braun Center for Science & Innovation / NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center / U.S. Department of Defense Space Test Program / NanoSail-D mission / Missile Defense Command / NanoSail-D’s mission / /
Position
carpenter / marshall / /
Product
NanoSail / Falcon / Kodiak / /
ProvinceOrState
New Mexico / Alabama / Alaska / California / Arizona / /
NanoSail-D Solar sails use sunlight to propel vehicles through space much like sailboats rely on wind to push through the water. NanoSail-D is an experiment designed to validate solar sail capabilities developed and buil