] A private team of space-savvy civilians has hit a major
] milestone in plans to launch the first spacecraft
] propelled by sunlight after shipping the small probe to
] be loaded atop ballistic missile.
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] The solar sail-propelled Cosmos 1 vehicle, hailed as the
] world%u2019s first solar sail spacecraft, has left its
] Moscow testing center and now bound to Severomorsk,
] Russia, where it will be loaded into a modified
] intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and readied for
] a June 21 launch, mission planners announced Monday.