Nasa To Develop Special Spacecraft That Could Enter The Sun S Orbit

NASA’s aim to further study the Sun and other celestails has taken a new step as the US-based space organization has now invested $2 million to develop a new solar sail concept. The concept, dubbed “diffractive lightsailing,” could pave the way for developing a spacecraft that will be able to propel into the orbit around the Sun’s poles. Let’s take a look at the details below.

NASA’s latest $2 million funding is a part of Phase III of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. This project is led by Amber Dubill of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

The team has already designed and tested various kinds of diffractive sail materials. Furthermore, the researchers have designed new navigation and color schemes for a lightsail-based spacecraft that could potentially back a mission of orbiting the Sun’s poles.