Sunjammer is a solar sail constructed by LGarde for NASA.
It is the largest solar sail to be constructed as of 2013. Sunjammer is slated to launch in November 2014 as the secondary payload of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, along with the Earth observation satellite DSCOVR.
Sunjammer was named after a 1964 Arthur C. Clarke story of the same name, in which several solar sails compete in a race across the Solar System.
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