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 ...

Bandai Namco’s unprecedented post-release support for its successful anime adaptations has claimed a new benefactor, as One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 – originally released in 2020 – is coming ...

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.

A survey of Southeast Asia, a first for the Quality Branded group, is opposite the company’s Bad Roman at the Columbus Circle mall. Craig Koketsu, the chef and partner in charge, covers mainly ...

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 ...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) caught a ride to space on April 24 on Rocket Lab's Electron vehicle and, at the end of August, NASA shared in a release that its mission ...

The sails will measure 80 square meters (860 square feet) when fully deployed, or roughly the area of six parking spots. But they pack really tightly and move around an air fryer-sized CubeSat.