Online 2 months ago The Daring LightSail 2 Spacecraft Is Being Sucked Into Fiery Doom Passant Rabie For the past three years, a tiny loaf-of-bread-sized spacecraft with gigantic wings has been sailing on sunbeams in low Earth…
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Online 6 years ago Here’s Our First Look At Bill Nye’s Even Bigger, Higher-Flying LightSail George Dvorsky Less than a year after the LightSail cubesat successfully deployed its solar sails in space, the Planetary Society has unveiled…
Online 7 years ago LightSail Hit By ‘Software Glitch’, Falls Silent To Radio Comms Logan Booker The team behind the LightSail, a solar-sail based craft currently in orbit after a successful launch last week, is currently…