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Following their non-selection for the Halley rendezvous mission’ solar sails’ fell by the wayside, but in the early 1990s there was a brief resurgence of interest, and the deployment of a small sail in space was tested.

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(2009). Faster, cheaper, better. In: Robotic Exploration of the Solar System. Springer Praxis Books. Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78905-7_3

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