First ever solar sail is successful: “HA…

First ever solar sail is successful: “HAYABUSA Completed TCM-4 operation, precise guidance to WPA – JAXA would like to announce that TCM-4 operation was successfully completed (15:00 June 9th, 2010 (JST)). By this operation, Hayabusa spacecraft was precisely guided to WPA in Australia. Hayabusa system is going well.”

http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/topics/2010/0609.shtml

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Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail