Pekin Daily Times (Feb. 19) -- The CubeSail Satellite has been in development for over a decade by students and faculty at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This past December, it was finally launched from a site in New Zealand, as part of NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites mission. The satellite is about the size of a shoebox, and, once in space, its two halves split apart, unspooling between them an 820-foot-long solar sail – a ribbon of light-reflective material that allows the satellite to be propelled and maneuvered with energy from sunlight.