Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Floating in infinity

File:Goltzius Ikarus.jpg

A Japanese rocket has blasted off carrying a Venus probe and a kite-shaped "space yacht" designed to float through the cosmos using only the power of the sun.

The launch vehicle, the H-IIA rocket, took off from the Tanegashima space centre in southern Japan, three days after its original launch was postponed by bad weather.

It was carrying the experimental Ikaros - an acronym for Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun - designed to be propelled by the pressure of sunlight particles.

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