Czech scientists trying to recover signal from first solar sail-powered spacecraft

Czech scientists, on Wednesday, tried to recover a signal from the US-Russian Cosmos 1, the world's first solar sail-powered spacecraft. According to the Russian Space Agency, the spacecraft crashed back to earth when the engine of its booster rocket failed minutes after takeoff from the Barents Sea on Tuesday. But weak signals received by tracking stations in the Pacific Ocean, Russia and the Czech Republic seemed to show it had made it into orbit.