Cosmos 1 Solar Sail Spacecraft Fails, Space Agency Says

Russian space agency officials said Cosmos 1, the world’s first solar sail spacecraft, failed to reach space yesterday.
Agency spokesman Vyacheslav Davidenko told the Associated Press in Moscow that the Volna booster rocket that carried the spacecraft failed 83 seconds after it was launched from a Russian nuclear submarine under the Barents Sea.
Cosmos 1 Solar Sail Spacecraft Fails, Space Agency Says

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