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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 19 |
The Planetary Society
Timeline: LightSail's First Day in Space We're one day from the launch of LightSail A!
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| 2015 May 19 |
The Planetary Society
Follow the Launch of LightSail A Via the Project's Mission Control Center This is a good online source for the latest status of LightSail A (as reported by The Planetary Society and LightSail mission team)
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| 2015 May 19 |
NBC News
LightSail Space Mission Will Shine Global Spotlight on Solar Sails The LightSail mission story goes back to ~40 years ago (see video in this piece)
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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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| 2015 May 20 |
Spaceflight Now
Follow the Launch of LightSail A Here
LightSail A, integrated and tested by Ecliptic, launches today from Florida at or after 11:05 am EDT
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| 2015 May 20 |
Wired
Blasting Off Today: A Satellite That Sails on Sunbeams LightSail A is the focus
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| 2015 May 20 |
Spaceflight Now
X-37B Spaceplane Embarks on Fourth Voyage In Orbit
See the launch video here, with LightSail A along for the ride
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| 2015 May 20 |
NASA
NASA’s CubeSat Initiative Aids in Testing of Technology for Solar Sails in Space LightSail A was successfully launched today!
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| 2015 May 20 |
The Planetary Society
LightSail Sends First Data Back to Earth Successfully receiving telemetry from LightSail A achieves one of the two main objectives of this demo mission. The other is successful deployment of the solar sail, scheduled (by onboard timer) for Jun 17.
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| 2015 May 21 |
The Planetary Society
LightSail Update: All Systems Nominal So far, so good ...
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