NanoSail D tracking page is
here.
Visible passes info is
here.
Nasa homepage is
here.
Physorg article says:
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No matter what happens next, NanoSail-D has already made history: It has demonstrated an elegant and inexpensive method for deploying sails and become the first sail to orbit Earth. Eventually, the team will diagnose the sail’s reluctance to leave FASTSAT—"and then we'll be batting a thousand," says Alhorn.
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I wouldn't exactly describe the deployment as 'elegant'. The thing was stuck inside the mothership for weeks and then …
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For reasons engineers still don't fully understand, NanoSail-D spontaneously ejected itself.
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Its 10m⌃2 total in area .. good luck looking for it …
The JAXA Ikaros probe is out at Venus at present.
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