When Cosmos 1, the first solar sail spacecraft, launches on June 21, 2005, it will carry into Earth orbit a CD containing the names of over 75,000 members of The Planetary Society and the Japan ...

The solar sail-propelled Cosmos 1 vehicle, hailed as the world’s first solar sail spacecraft, has left its Moscow testing center and now is on its way to Severomorsk, Russia, where it will be loaded ...

Scientists in Russia and California worked on final preparations for the planned launch of the first spacecraft propelled by sunlight. If all goes as planned, Cosmos 1 was to be launched early Tuesday ...

At 12:46 PM (PDT) on June 21, 2005, Cosmos 1, a project of The Planetary Society and Cosmos Studios, was launched from a submerged Russian nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea. Cosmos 1 is the first ...

After nearly four years of delays, the world's first solar-sail-powered spacecraft is ready for its day in the sun. Cosmos 1 will rocket into space June 21 aboard a modified Russian missile, according ...

The Planetary Society has decided to build a second solar sail spacecraft for the Cosmos 1 project following launch last month of a suborbital test vehicle on a converted Russian ICBM, which failed ...

A clicking countdown clock has started, leading to a liftoff of the orbital mission of Cosmos 1 -- billed as the world's first solar sail spacecraft. Launch of the private space mission from a ...

PASADENA, California --Members of the Planetary Society space interest group have let go of all but the last thread of hope that their Cosmos 1 spacecraft survived a botched launch. The ...

A privateteam of space-savvy civilians has hit a major milestone in plans to launch thefirst spacecraft propelled by sunlight after shipping the small probe to be loaded atop ballistic missile. The ...