Other Aspects
Besides the main spacecraft, launched in June 2005, the Cosmos 1 project has funded two other craft:
- A suborbital test was attempted in 2001 with only two sail blades. The spacecraft failed to separate from the rocket.
- A second orbital spacecraft is under construction, (LightSail-1), and is scheduled to be launched in November 2011.
One of Cosmos 1's solar sail blades was displayed at the Rockefeller Center office complex in New York City in 2003.
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