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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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Ecliptic Projects in the Media
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| 2017 Dec 07 |
JPL
JPL Deploys a CubeSat for Astronomy Ecliptic engineered the focal plane control and data-handling electronics for ASTERIA's camera system
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| 2017 Nov 21 |
Nanoracks
NanoRacks Completes 13th CubeSat Deployment Mission from Space Station, First “Doublewide” Satellites Ecliptic supplied the imaging focal plane assembly for JPL's ASTERIA 6U CubeSat
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| 2017 Nov 20 |
Portland Business Journal
Oregon Beer Showdown 2017: A Portland Brewer 'Eclipses' the Field Ecliptic Brewing (Portland, Oregon) is Ecliptic's official company beer --
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| 2017 Oct 27 |
The Planetary Society
Here's How Engineers Closed Out LightSail 2 for Flight All images here were taken in Ecliptic's lab in Pasadena, CA. Final close-out was performed by Ecliptic's Stephanie Wong.
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| 2017 Sep 26 |
The Planetary Society
LightSail-2 Animation
A brief video animation of the LightSail-2 assembly process (part-by-part) and overall mission profile
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| 2017 Sep 20 |
The Planetary Society
LightSail 2: The Next Step
A brief video summary of the LightSail-2 project status, featuring several shots of Ecliptic engineers at work during final spacecraft system testing
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| 2017 Sep 01 |
SatMagazine / Satnews
Innovation: Solar Array Success for SSL Implementation—A Space Systems Loral Focus
The value of the ROSA demo on ISS, controlled by Ecliptic-supplied avionics, is highlighted
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| 2017 Aug 28 |
Forbes
Meet The Rocket Scientist Putting Singapore's Spacetech Scene On The Map BSE is an Ecliptic customer, and Ecliptic is facilitating BSE's acquisition of additional ISS experiment modules
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| 2017 Aug 23 |
The Planetary Society
A Good Time for Solar Sailing: LightSail 2 Finds Itself Among Friends This article puts the LightSail-2 project in context with other sail-based spacecraft projects
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| 2017 Aug 14 |
Wired
The Plan to Put a 3-D Printer With Robot Arms Into Orbit Ecliptic provided Made In Space with a multi-camera RocketCam Digital Video System for monitoring Archinaut operations from inside the thermal-vacuum chamber at NASA Ames
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