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2018 Sep 26

How LightSail and a NASA Study Helped Pave the Way for Mars-bound CubeSats

A good summary of the historical context for the LightSail program
2018 Aug 14

ASTERIA Wins Small Satellite Mission of the Year Award

Ecliptic designed and produced ASTERIA's core imaging focal plane electronics circuit board and related software/firmware. This is the second such award for a project involving Ecliptic, the first being the LightSail-1 mission for 2015 (see http://www.planetary.org/press-room/releases/2015/lightsail-mission-of-the-year.html).
2018 Aug 10

ASTERIA Measures Exoplanet Transit - A First for CubeSats

Ecliptic designed and produced ASTERIA's core imaging focal plane electronics circuit board and related software/firmware
2018 Aug 08

LightSail 2 updates: Launch Date Slips, Environmental Test Complete, New Video Released

A summary of the final Operational Readiness Test for LightSail 2

Nov 1: Spacecraft separation sequencers (launched on Falcon 9 payload module)
Spaceflight SSO-A (earliest launch date)
Nov 17: Cygnus
Northrop Grumman CRS mission #10 (NG-10, on Antares 230) (approx. date)
Feb 15: 3U CubeSat integrated with Prox 1 (launched on Falcon Heavy / STP-2 mission)
LightSail-2 solar sailing demo (approx. date)
Mar 15: Cygnus
Northrop Grumman CRS mission #11 (NG-11, on Antares 230) (approx. date)

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