What's up with solar/light sails?

> Yes, in principle it is possible. In practice, it may be a kind of
> complicated operation, with several folds and unfolds of the sail
> till you reach the desired orbit.

Might be easier to turn it sideways than to furl and unfurl it.

> No, though I vaguely remember that some organization has a project
> for doing so in the near future.

Just because you said that I did a Google on "solar sail" and this
was their very top link:

http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/index2.html

Which leads to this: http://solarsail.org/

How about that! D'oh, guess I should have looked for the obvious
before asking. Pretty cool project!

John