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This chapter describes thoroughly the second sailcraft in these years of efforts for transforming the solar-photon sailing from theory to reality. Once again, NASA is the maker of an historical step in the modern history of Astronautics.
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A NORAD two-line element set consists of two 69-character lines of data which can be used with orbital models to determine the position and velocity of a satellite.
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Vulpetti, G., Johnson, L., Matloff, G.L. (2015). The NanoSAIL-D2 NASA Mission. In: Solar Sails. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0941-4_16
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