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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 Feb 01 |
Spaceflight Now
Camera Aboard Delta 2 Rocket Watches SMAP Begin Life in Orbit
Brought to you by RocketCam, of course!
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| 2015 Jan 31 |
NASA
RocketCam Captures SMAP Separation from Delta II
This was RocketCam mission #131
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| 2015 Jan 30 |
Spaceflight Now
Follow the Delta II / SMAP Launch Scheduled for Jan 31 A forward-looking Ecliptic RocketCam system will provide onboard video during this launch
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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 Jan 26 |
New York Times
New Phase of Space Travel Hopes to Set Sail on Sunlight Ecliptic is the lead system contractor for both LightSail spacecraft
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| 2015 Jan 26 |
The Planetary Society
It's Official: LightSail Test Flight Scheduled for May 2015
Ecliptic is the lead system contractor for both LightSail spacecraft
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| 2015 Jan 26 |
The Planetary Society
Planetary Society Announces Test Flight for Privately Funded LightSail Spacecraft
Ecliptic is the lead system contractor for both LightSail spacecraft
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| 2015 Jan 26 |
Space News
Planetary Society Sets May Launch for Solar Sail Experiment Ecliptic is the lead system contractor for both LightSail spacecraft
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| 2015 Jan 25 |
Spaceflight Now
Preview Story: Launch of Delta 2 Rocket with NASA Probe Thursday An Ecliptic-supplied RocketCam system will provide onboard video views during this launch
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| 2015 Jan 09 |
intoPIX
intoPIX Receives Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award For Its Work on JPEG 2000 Ecliptic uses the intoPIX JPEG compression algorithms in its RocketCam product family
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