The characteristic lateen rig of the Mediterranean and Red Sea is also found from Norfolk to Burma. This sophisticated fore-and-aft sail is descended from the simpler Roman running square-sail. The ...

China Oilfield Services' (COSL) semi-submersible drilling rig Nanhai 8 has begun its voyage to Brazil, where it will work on a multi-year drilling campaign for Petrobras. The rig was loaded onto ...

Transocean Ltd.’s RIG semi-submersible drilling rig, Transocean Barents, is making its way to the Neptun Deep project for a 10-well drilling mission, marking a significant phase in Romania’s ...

Topgallant —“tuh-GAL-uhnt”—can be used for a sail set above the topmast or for the part of a mast above the topmast. (The topmast is above the lower mast but isn’t always the highest mast.) ...

Trump’s event at the fabled Madison Square Garden, which lasted for nearly six hours Sunday, featured criticisms of Vice President Kamala Harris over the border, crime and the economy.

If we use this radiation pressure with NASA's ACS3 solar sail (an area of 81 square meters), we get a solar force of 3.6 x 10 –4 newtons. Yes, that's tiny.

Science Space NASA NASA releases first photo of 860-square-foot solar sail in orbit The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System could pave the way for new, ultrafast forms of space travel. By Andrew Paul ...

On Aug. 29, the ACS3 spacecraft deployed its 860-square-foot (80-square-meter) solar sail while operating at an altitude about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) above Earth, which is nearly twice as ...

More than four months after it hitched a ride to space, NASA's next-generation solar sail, ACS3, has unfurled. The sail is now moving confidently through the cosmos using only the Sun's steady ...

They know it had a crew of four, was constructed from wood with lead sheathing and had one mast with a square sail. The ship is on display at a museum at Kyrenia Castle in Cyprus.