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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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| 2007 Apr 24 |
Spaceflight Now
Missile Research Spacecraft Soars Into Orbit from Virginia |
| 2007 Apr 24 |
Orbital Sciences Corp.
Orbital Successfully Launches Minotaur I Rocket Carrying U.S. Missile Defense Agency's NFIRE Satellite |
| 2007 Apr 25 |
ABC TV (Ch. 7, San Francisco) / YouTube
Nanosatellites and Ecliptic's RocketPod™
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| 2007 Apr 25 |
San Jose Mercury News
Tech Companies Find a Market in Mars; NASA Cultivates Start-ups, Partners — Like Google — for Space Missions |
| 2007 Apr 25 |
ZD Net
Images Beamed to Earth From Space
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| 2007 May 11 |
CBS News / Spaceflight Now
Atlantis Cleared for Return to Pad with Repaired Fuel Tank |
| 2007 May 18 |
Yahoo! Movies
RocketCam™ Video in Transformers Movie Trailer [Click on "Teaser Trailer"]
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| 2007 May 31 |
CBS News / Spaceflight Now
Atlantis Passes Readiness Review for Next Week's Flight |
| 2007 Jun 05 |
NASA Spaceflight.com
STS-117 - Countdown Begins for Atlantis |
| 2007 Jun 08 |
CBS News / Spaceflight Now
Atlantis Sails to Space with Station Power Module
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