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NASA's solar sail successfully spreads its wings in space (www.space.com)
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[–] shadowtofu@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You can check heavens above (adjust your location) to check when it will be visible for you.

Wait a second, it’s going to pass over my house in 5 minutes!

Edit: Shit, clouds!

Edit2: I was able to see it through a few gaps in the cloud cover!

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Fuck that's cool. You lucky bastard.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Wow. Suprised this is ground level visible. Cool that you saw it!