 |  NASA’s new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics’ satellite
 2 May 2020
NanoAvionics has been selected to build a 12U nanosatellite bus for an in-orbit
demonstration of NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3). This a result of
a contract between NASA Ames Research Center and AST for a 12U bus to carry NASA’s
payload into low Earth orbit (LEO) including an approximately 74 square metre composite
boom and solar sail system.
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