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Upcoming space mission to test Purdue-developed drag sail pulling rocket back to Earth – Mirage News
Time-lapse footage shows the drag sail deploying in the atrium of Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering at Purdue. (Purdue University video/Erin Easterling)…
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A rocket is going up into space with a drag sail. The goal? For the drag sail to bring the rocket back to Earth, preventing it from becoming like the thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth’s lower orbit.
The drag sail, developed by Purdue University engineers, will be on board a Firefly Aerospace rocket expected to launch in November from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
This sail and six other “Dedicated Research and Education Accelerator Mission” (DREAM) pa…
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