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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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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) - Mar 15
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Cygnus
Northrop Grumman CRS mission #11 (NG-11, on Antares 230) (approx. date)
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Ecliptic Projects in the Media
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| 2015 May 06 |
Washington Post
A Fantastic Idea Carl Sagan Showed Johnny Carson in 1976 Is About to Become Reality
Ecliptic is lead system contractor for both LightSail spacecraft
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| 2015 Oct 01 |
Inside Outer Space
A Sound Idea: Technology to Listen Up for Noise in Space Ecliptic is working with Dan Slater to bring his Remote Acoustic Sensor (RAS) technology into the RocketCam product family
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| 2015 Jun 06 |
New York Times
After Series of Setbacks, Spacecraft Prepares to Unfurl Sail Sail deployment baselined for Sunday at 11:02-11:15 am PDT
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| 2015 Jun 07 |
New York Times
After Silences and Setbacks, the LightSail Spacecraft Is Revived, Deploying Its Solar Sail "For reasons not understood, LightSail ignored the command." The spacecraft was tumbling about all three axes, and most likely one of two required commands did not get into its receiver because the geometry was not lined up.
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| 2015 Dec 03 |
Spaceflight Now
Atlas 5 / Cygnus Launch [Now scheduled for Dec 6 after three scrubs due to poor weather] An Ecliptic RocketCam system on the Cygnus cargo vehicle will provide (non-realtime) onboard views of Cygnus solar array deployment and ISS rendezvous and proximity operations
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| 2015 Apr 10 |
Spaceflight Now
Atlas 5 Slips at Payload's Request Ecliptic's first CubeSat, LightSail A, is a secondary payload on this launch -- and not the source of the launch slip!
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| 2015 Jun 07 |
The Planetary Society
Bill Nye & Planetary Society Celebrate LightSail™ Test Mission Landmark Success!
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| 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 Jan 27 |
Washington Post
Bill Nye and The Planetary Society to Launch a Satellite That Will ‘Sail on Sunbeams’ Ecliptic is lead system contractor for both LightSail spacecraft
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| 2015 May 20 |
San Jose Business Journal
Bill Nye's Boldest Experiment Yet: A Light-Beam Propelled Satellite That's Headed to Space This piece also features Ecliptic CEO Rex Ridenoure
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