IKAROS - Come Sail Away

[bananas]

Run time: 01:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUSjggdG9KU   Posted on YouTube: June 16, 2010 By YouTube Member: Kowch737 Views on YouTube: 354   Posted on DU: June 19, 2010 By DU Member: bananas Views on DU: 640

 
Via http://hobbyspace.com/nucleus/?itemid=21449

More IKAROS views
Some more pictures with and info about the cameras released to view the Japanese IKAROS solar sail from a distance:
/-- See the solar sail in space - Cosmic Log - June.17.10
/-- Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator 'IKAROS' Successful Image Shooting by Separation Camera - JAXA - June.17.10

Haven't seen an estimate yet as to when they will be able to measure an acceleration with the sail. It's a fairly small sail so I suspect it could be quite awhile.

A nice sequence of pictures from the free floating cameras start at about 1 minute into this video

They picked a very appropriate song for this, "Come Sail Away" by Styx.
Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/come-sail-away-lyrics-styx/db911556e7772a184825693a0017afee

I'm sailing away,
Set an open course for the virgin sea,
'Cause I've got to be free,
Free to face the life that's ahead of me,

<snip>

I thought that they were angels, but much to my surprise,
We climbed aboard their starship, we headed for the skies

<snip>

[heliarc]

1. Sounds like Nasa engineers

must not have worked too hard on the midi file

[bananas]

2. Oops, I thought the video was made by JAXA engineers

I watched the embedded video at hobbyspace and thought it came from Jaxa.