LightSail, Planetary Society's Solar Sail mission (Redux) |
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LightSail, Planetary Society's Solar Sail mission (Redux) |
 Jul 10 2014, 02:23 AM
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Will launch on a Falcon Heavy in Spring 2016.
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Jul 23 2014, 09:47 PM
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Drat.
LightSail-A Has a Blown Radio Amplifier. Now What? http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis...lown-radio.html -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
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Sep 25 2014, 08:47 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
Nice!
LightSail Sails through Day-in-the-Life Test While there is still much work to be done before the team decides whether or not to send LightSail-A on a 2015 shakedown flight, Tuesday’s test sent the spacecraft over a big project hurdle—and gave the team a much-needed morale boost. http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis...sails-ditl.html -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
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Oct 1 2014, 07:01 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
More LightSail Day-in-the-Life Multimedia, and a Community Image Processing Challenge
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis...ditl-media.html -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
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Dec 12 2014, 04:58 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
LightSail Completes Testing, Announcement Expected in January
LightSail has now been transferred to Cal Poly. The spacecraft will be integrated with its P-POD (Pico-PolySat Orbital Deployer) in mid-January. An announcement from The Planetary Society on the status of the 2015 test flight is expected around the same time. Following P-POD integration, the spacecraft will be taken to the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. for final acceptance testing. http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis...es-testing.html -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
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May 20 2015, 07:31 AM
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T-7h 30mins!
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Jun 8 2015, 11:16 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 39 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Cornwall Member No.: 4697 |
LightSail deployed successfully yesterday, amateur trackers are on the case.
http://www.satobs.org/LightSail-A.html |
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Jun 9 2015, 12:54 AM
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Wondering if anybody here can do better than I did at descrambling the partial picture of LightSail that we received today. Hopefully the full image will be transmitted eventually, so it might be wasted effort. But it was a fun jigsaw puzzle to attempt
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Jun 9 2015, 07:48 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
For anyone not already following, the complete version is now posted at Lightsail Mission Control. Huge congratulations to the team who it must be said have had to perform technical and mental acrobatics just to stay in the saddle. They will be hoping the voyage of lightsail-2 is equally inspirational but a lot less hectic.
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Jun 9 2015, 10:00 PM
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Here is an attempt to reproject the image to get a top down view of the sail.
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