text: Solar sail craft may have made orbit
  
  June 23, 2005 
  
  The Planetary Society have stated that their experimental solar sail craft Cosmos 1 is probably lost, but intermittent signals have given them some hope the mission has made orbit. 
  The 100kg vehicle was launched atop a converted ICBM from a Russian nuclear submarine, however it is believed the first stage of the Volna booster rocket failed 83 seconds into the flight. The team behind the $4m craft have a slim hope that it managed to reach a low orbit, and efforts to pick up the tracking beacon are continuing. 
  Signals have apparently been received by at least two tracking stations around the globe - in the Czech Republic, and in the Marshall Islands. The Planetary Society are being assisted by the US Strategic Command in an effort to find the spacecraft, if it did make orbit.
tokens: Solar sail craft may have made orbit June 23 , 2005 The Planetary Society have stated that their experimental solar sail craft Cosmos 1 is probably lost , but intermittent signals have given them some hope the mission has made orbit . The 100 kg vehicle was launched atop a converted ICBM from a Russian nuclear submarine , however it is believed the first stage of the Volna booster rocket failed 83 seconds into the flight . The team behind the $ 4 m craft have a slim hope that it managed to reach a low orbit , and efforts to pick up the tracking beacon are continuing . Signals have apparently been received by at least two tracking stations around the globe - in the Czech Republic , and in the Marshall Islands . The Planetary Society are being assisted by the US Strategic Command in an effort to find the spacecraft , if it did make orbit .
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