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> retract and expand at will

I think LightSail 2 already does just that, though, but possibly not very efficiently.

From the article:

> LightSail 2's single momentum wheel, which rotates the spacecraft broadside and then edge-on to the Sun each orbit to turn the thrust from solar sailing on and off.



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