Giant solar sail will propel tiny spacecraft to intercept and study asteroid

Catching a ride on Artemis 1 is a miniaturized CubeSat called NEA Scout that will use a thin, aluminum-coated solar sail about the size of a tennis court to propel it towards the smallest asteroid ever to be studied by a spacecraft. NEA Scout will serve as a bold robotic reconnaissance mission to fly by and return data from an asteroid representative of near-Earth asteroids that may one day become destinations for humans. More

(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 4)