#lightsail2 — Public Fediverse posts

The Planetary Society's #LightSail2 spacecraft reentered the atmosphere ending a nearly 3.5 year mission to demonstrate the viability of using a solar sail

Funded by members of the non-profit and run by the #PlanetarySociety the mission started operations twice as far out as the International Space Station, used the #SolarSail for propulsion and made 8,000 orbits

https://www.planetary.org/articles/lightsail-2-completes-mission?utm_campaign=lightsail22&utm_medium=email&utm_source=reentry&s_src=lightsail22&s_subsrc=reentry

It also took lots of pictures of our #PaleBlueDot

https://www.planetary.org/space-images?imgkeywords=lightsail-2-image-from-space

#space

LightSail 2: Von Sonnensegel angetriebener Experimentalsatellit ist verglüht

Nur durch den Druck der Sonnenteilchen hat LightSail 2 seinen Orbit verändert. Auch wegen der zunehmenden Sonnenaktivität ist die Mission jetzt doch zu Ende.

https://www.heise.de/news/LightSail-2-Von-Sonnensegel-angetriebener-Experimentalsatellit-ist-verglueht-7347472.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.-.-

#LightSail2 #Sonnensegel #Raumfahrt

MISSION SUCCESS!

We just raised our orbit around Earth using sunlight alone, something that’s never been done before.#LightSail2 is now the highest performing solar sail to date and it's 100% crowdfunded by our members and backers!

Years of computer simulations. Countless ground tests. They've all led up to now. The Planetary Society's crowdfunded LightSail 2 spacecraft is successfully raising its orbit solely on the power of sunlight.

http://planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/lightsail-2-successful-flight-by-light.html

Yay! Lightsail 2 is working to expectations.

#SolarSail #LightSail2 #PlanetarySociety #Satellites #Space

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/lightsail-2-successful-flight-by-light.html