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The acronym IKAROS stands for Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun. IKAROS is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency experimental spacecraft. The space craft was launched on May 21st 2010. It is the first spacecraft to successfully demonstrate solar-sail technology in interplanetary space. IKAROS passed by Venus on December 8th 2010.

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IKAROS stands for Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun. It is a space exploration mission by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) that successfully deployed a solar sail in space to demonstrate propulsion using solar radiation pressure.

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