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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A day after launch from a Russian submarine in the Barents Sea, north of the Arctic Circle, the fate of Cosmos 1, the first solar-sail spacecraft, remains unclear. The mission began with launch on a ...

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 ...