NASA's technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) has a bent boom in Earth orbit, a newly released photo shows. The ACS3 spacecraft launched April 23 to test key aspects ...

said Friday that one sailor each on entrants Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline were killed after being struck by the boom, a large horizontal pole at the bottom of the sail. New South Wales Police ...

The boom is a long pole that extends perpendicularly from the bottom of the mast and is attached to the bottom of the sail. It allows crews to control the sail’s shape and angle in response to ...

Two experienced sailors were killed in similar but separate incidents in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, organisers and local authorities said on Friday – the first loss of life in the ...

New South Wales Police's Marine Area Command were notified by Canberra maritime authorities a crew member had been hit by a sail boom before midnight Thursday. The first incident occurred on NSW ...