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NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) will be visible from the ground. Find out when you can see it on the NASA app on a mobile device.   Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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00:00A NASA solar sail that you can spot from the ground,

00:04there's a new opportunity to observe a bright NASA spacecraft sailing across the night sky.

00:10NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS-3, is a small satellite that's testing

00:15new technologies in low-Earth orbit. It recently deployed its 30-foot-wide solar sails. These are

00:22a means of propulsion that could allow small spacecraft to sail on sunlight. The ACS-3 solar

00:28sails are highly reflective and make the spacecraft appear nearly as bright as Sirius, the brightest

00:34star in the sky. You can find out when the solar sail spacecraft will pass over your location

00:40using the NASA app on your mobile device. Stay up to date on NASA's missions exploring the

00:46solar system and beyond at science.nasa.gov. I'm Preston Dyches from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

00:53and that's what's up for this month!

00:58so

01:14it's okay!

See A Solar Sail In The Night Sky - NASA Explains How

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