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2018 Aug 14
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
Ecliptic designed and produced ASTERIA's core imaging focal plane electronics circuit board and related software/firmware2018 Aug 08
This article also mentions Ecliptic's hosted payload agreement with Rocket Lab2018 Aug 08
A summary of the final Operational Readiness Test for LightSail 2
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Satellite Innovation 2018
Mountain View, CA – Organized by Satnews - Nov 1
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Spacecraft separation sequencers (launched on Falcon 9 payload module)
Spaceflight SSO-A (earliest launch date) - Nov 17
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Cygnus
Northrop Grumman CRS mission #10 (NG-10, on Antares 230) (approx. date) - Feb 15
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3U CubeSat integrated with Prox 1 (launched on Falcon Heavy / STP-2 mission)
LightSail-2 solar sailing demo (approx. date)
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Ecliptic Projects in the Media
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| 2015 Jun 10 |
Bloomberg News
Scientists Look to LightSail's Next Launch Ecliptic is the prime contractor as well for the LightSail spacecraft launching in 2016
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| 2015 Jun 10 |
NBC News
LightSail Team Declares Solar Sail Success as Mission Nears Its End |
| 2015 Jun 10 |
The Planetary Society
Bill Nye & Planetary Society Declare LightSail™ Test Mission Success; Citizen-Funded Spacecraft Deploys Solar Sail, Milestone Step Toward 2016 Mission Total mission success!
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| 2015 Jun 09 |
New York Times
LightSail Spacecraft Sends Back a Selfie Showing Its Sail Stretched Out Press conference Wednesday morning PDT
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| 2015 Jun 09 |
The Planetary Society
LightSail Test Mission Declared Success; First Image Complete All primary mission objectives have been met (=> total mission success). Now for some fun stuff ...
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| 2015 Jun 08 |
The Planetary Society
Sails in Space: Partial Photo, Video and Light Curve
The mission team is working 24x7 to get more images downlinked before spacecraft re-entry
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| 2015 Jun 08 |
National Public Radio
Solar Sail Unfurls In Space A "sail Mary pass" indeed -- !
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| 2015 Jun 08 |
Discovery.com
Solar Sail Spacecraft Back From the Dead "Troubled battery" is a bit extreme. The batteries were behaving as designed, but it was rather complex behavior that took a while to understand.
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| 2015 Jun 08 |
NBC News
LightSail Wakes Up After Silent Spell and Spreads Its Solar Sail Orbit lifetime now will be short: a few days
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| 2015 Jun 07 |
Spaceflight Now
Satellite Comes Back to Life, Deploys Solar Sail on Second Try |