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NanoSail-D2 is a small satellite built by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Ames Research Center to study the deployment of a solar sail in space. It is a three-unit CubeSat measuring 30×10×10 centimetres (11.8×3.9×3.9 in) with a mass of 4 kilograms (8.8 lb). Its solar sail has an area of 10 square meters (110 sq ft) and was deployed in around five seconds.It was planned to be deployed from the FASTSAT satellite around 3 December 2010 two weeks after launch.

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