3.6 MILLION MILES PER DAY (150K MPH) ... IT'S A THING!

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Changing space technology: A "solar sail" spaceship, which means it uses the sun for energy and traveling and requires NO FUEL, which has the ability to go up to 3 million miles in a day, went on a mission in late June to orbit around the Earth using only the sun for power and NO fuel. Well, it has recently been deemed a success! The 10×10×30cm ship, named LightSail 2, went on that mission on June 25, and it has been deemed a success! You can't ride it or anything, since it's too small, but it's a start! If a spaceship that was actually built to go 3.6m miles per day (150k mph) , it would take the spaceship 9 1/2 days to reach Mars! If we were to take a car going at 60 mph to Mars, it would take almost 7 years to get there! 9 1/2 days is a long time, but it's a lot better than 7 years! So this is a step up in space technology for all of us!


This is what the LightSail 2 looks like.

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  1. Mary Anne DamonAugust 14, 2019 at 2:07 PM

    Very interesting new technology!!! I hope that they can build on it.

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