Talk:CubeSail

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The other CubeSail

The University of Illinois is developing a solar sail mission also called CubeSail, the precursor of a larger project: "CU Aerospace's CubeSail: CU Aerospace together with the University of Illinois are designing a mission to demonstrate deployment and measure the thrust on a 0:77x260m membrane (around 200m2). This membrane will be deployed from two 1.5U CubeSats that will separate from each other in orbit. It is intended as a first step towards a larger sail concept called UltraSail. This last consists of multiple CubeSail-like structures that extend kilometers long film blades to ultimately form an heliogyro." Sail blades as long as 5 km each: [1] -BatteryIncluded (talk) 14:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed Rename

Since the University of Illinois satellite also called CubeSail has launched before this version, which seems to be still in development, even though no results have been released, I propose renaming this article to "CubeSail (Surrey)" to reduce misdirection. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 00:55, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Rowan Forest (talk) 01:06, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]