Success in space: NASA's tiny solar sail gets second wind

Talk about a comeback story: A tiny NASA satellite once teetering on failure has successfully unfurled its solar sail while orbiting the Earth, the space agency announced Friday. The NanoSail-D satellite — which ejected from its mothership just this week, more than a month late — deployed its sail late Thursday and is operating as planned. The unfurling marks the first time a NASA craft has ever opened a solar sail in low-Earth orbit, according to agency officials. More

(Source: MSNBC - Jan 23)