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RECENT NEWS

2018 Jun 06

Singapore, Australia Student Experiments Being Run On ISS

Bhattacharya Space Enterprises procured the ISS experiment kits from Ecliptic
2018 May 25

Rocket Lab Updates Launch Window for First Commercial Mission

Ecliptic assisted Rocket Lab with accommodating the German NABEO payload on this Electron mission
2018 May 25

Rocket Lab Confirms New ‘It’s Business Time’ Launch Window and Bolsters Manifest

Ecliptic assisted Rocket Lab with accommodating the German NABEO payload on this Electron mission
2018 May 21

Antares Rocket Launch Kicks Off Space Station’s Next Commercial Cargo Delivery

Orbital ATK's Cygnus OA-9 spacecraft has an Ecliptic-produced 4-camera RocketCam video system onboard

Jul 15: North American Eagle 800-mph supersonic car
World land speed record attempt (approx. date)
Aug 4 - 5: 32nd Small Satellite Conference
Logan, UT – Organized and hosted by Utah State University
Sep 12: Delta II [Final Delta II launch]
ICESat-2 (approx. date)
Oct 30: 3U CubeSat integrated with Prox 1 (launched on Falcon Heavy / STP-2 mission)
LightSail-2 solar sailing demo (earliest launch date)

Date	Headline
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
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!
2015 Jun 09	New York Times LightSail Spacecraft Sends Back a Selfie Showing Its Sail Stretched Out Press conference Wednesday morning PDT
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 ...
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
2015 Jun 08	National Public Radio Solar Sail Unfurls In Space A "sail Mary pass" indeed -- !
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.
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
2015 Jun 07	Spaceflight Now Satellite Comes Back to Life, Deploys Solar Sail on Second Try