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2018 Sep 26
A good summary of the historical context for the LightSail program2018 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
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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| 2018 Jan 25 |
Arizona State University
ASU Student Payloads Selected to Fly on Blue Origin Space Vehicle Ecliptic is the industry partner for the Remote Acoustic Sensor (RAS) experiment
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| 2018 Feb 07 |
Georgia Tech
Successful SpaceX Launch Clears Way for Historic Georgia Tech Spacecraft LightSail 2 will be carried into space by Georgia Tech's Prox-1 satellite, which in turn will be launched on the third Falcon Heavy later this year (later changed to second launch)
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| 2018 Feb 14 |
Bloomberg
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Mission for Air Force Targets June Launch This is the ride to orbit for LightSail 2, which will be nestled inside the Prox-1 spacecraft at launch
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| 2018 Mar 01 |
Spaceflight Now
Rideshare Mission for U.S. Military Confirmed As Second Falcon Heavy Launch LightSail 2 will launch on this Falcon Heavy, inside the Prox-1 spacecraft
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| 2018 Mar 20 |
The Planetary Society
LightSail 2 Doubles the Fun With Double Integrations LightSail 2 is now officially out of our hands and awaiting launch on the 2nd SpaceX Falcon Heavy, sometime this summer
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| 2018 Apr 12 |
JPL
Astrophysics CubeSat Demonstrates Big Potential in a Small Package Ecliptic developed the core imager focal-plane-to-computer interface for ASTERIA
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| 2018 Apr 25 |
The Planetary Society
Pew Pew! Lasers Will Help Determine Where LightSail 2 Is Good info on one aspect of the planned LightSail-2 mission operations
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| 2018 May 11 |
The Planetary Society
LightSail-2 Launch Slips to Fall It's the space business ...
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| 2018 May 21 |
Spaceflight Now
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
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| 2018 May 25 |
Rocket Lab
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
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