Centimeter of sail

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Bill Nye, as CEO of The Planetary Society, has started a Kickstarter campaign for the LightSail, a “citizen-funded flight by light” launching in fall 2016. Already beyond the Society’s initial goal of $200,000, the crowdfunding campaign is now aiming for $1 million, in part by offering a “centimeter of sail,” samples of the solar sailing cubesat’s Mylar material, as a reward for pledges.

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