print email comment close The Planetary Society: Cosmos 1: The First Solar Sail URL: http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/solar_sailing/ Description: Details about the June 2005 mission of the Cosmos 1 solar sail spacecraft, which is "a spacecraft without an engine — it is pushed along directly by light particles from the Sun, reflecting off giant mirror-like sails." Feature background information about this Russian-built spacecraft, images and animations, instructions for building a scale model of the craft, a blog, and other information related to the privately funded Cosmos 1 mission. From The Planetary Society. Publisher: The Planetary Society Extra Keywords cosmos one Library of Congress Subject Headings: Space flight Space vehicles LII Database Information: Record 5155 created by Jennifer English on 06/20/2005 Last modification on 11/06/2005 Published: 06/20/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/5155