{"id":337,"date":"2013-01-31T21:16:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2021-10-01T01:07:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T05:07:20","slug":"sunjammer-solar-sail-to-fly-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Sunjammer solar sail to fly in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Sunjammer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"338\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=338\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Sunjammer.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sunjammer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Sunjammer.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-338\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Sunjammer.jpg\" alt=\"Sunjammer\" width=\"500\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Sunjammer.jpg 620w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Sunjammer-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><em>Sunjammer in orbit. (Image credit: L\u2019Garde)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When it reaches orbit in 2014 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgarde.com\/programs\/space-propulsion\/sunjammer\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">L&#8217;Garde &#8211; Sunjammer<\/a> will unfurl into the largest solar sail ever flown:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/19565-worlds-largest-solar-sail-sunjammer.html\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA to Launch World&#8217;s Largest Solar Sail in 2014 &#8211; Space.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/tdm\/solarsail\/solarsail_overview.html\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA &#8211; Solar Sail Demonstration (The Sunjammer Project)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SunjammerScale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"339\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=339\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SunjammerScale.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"639,409\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SunjammerScale\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SunjammerScale.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-339\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SunjammerScale.jpg\" alt=\"SunjammerScale\" width=\"490\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SunjammerScale.jpg 639w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SunjammerScale-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunjammer in orbit. (Image credit: L\u2019Garde) When it reaches orbit in 2014 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch, the L&#8217;Garde &#8211; Sunjammer will unfurl into the largest solar sail ever flown: NASA to Launch World&#8217;s Largest Solar Sail in 2014 &#8211; Space.com NASA &#8211; Solar Sail Demonstration (The Sunjammer Project)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-5r","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2519,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2519","url_meta":{"origin":337,"position":0},"title":"Sunjammer solar sail to fly far in 2014","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The NASA funded Sunjammer Project will fly the largest solar sail ever deployed in space, a\u00a0 1200 sq. meter sail built by L'Garde. 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