Japan is due to fire a H-IIA rocket into space tomorrow, with a rather special payload aboard: The Ikaros space yacht, a beautiful vehicle that’s an experimental test bed for solar sail technology.

Icarus is getting another shot at fame. Next month, Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to send a craft - actually it's more of a solar sail - into space with name of Ikaros. ("Ikaros"is an ...

It didn’t move far — just one block up Eastern Avenue — but the new Ikaros is a world apart from the original, which the Kohilas brothers opened in 1969. Sometimes bigger is better. The new Ikaros, ...

The Kohilas family has been operating Ikaros at the same Greektown address since 1969. That’s a very long run for any restaurant, especially a family-owned and -operated establishment. Ikaros is truly ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) performed an attitude control experiment (*1) of the solar sail of the Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator "IKAROS," after its deployment, using an ...

Although the idea of a solar sail was first proposed some 100 years ago, to date none has been successfully used in space as a primary means of propulsion. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA ...