NASA Nixes Sunjammer Mission, Cites Integration, Schedule Risk

by Dan LeoneOctober 17, 2014January 20, 2023

Caption: Engineers fully extend one quadrant of Sunjammer’s rectangular solar sail on the floor of L’Garde’s manufacturing facility in Tustin, Calif., for a Sept. 29 test.

NASA has abandoned plans to fly a solar-sail mission in 2015 after investing four years and more than $21 million on the project.

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Dan Leone is the NASA reporter for SpaceNews, where he also covers other civilian-run U.S. government space programs and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies. He joined SpaceNews in 2011.Dan earned a bachelor's degree in public communications... More by Dan Leone