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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
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Spacecraft separation sequencers (launched on Falcon 9 payload module)
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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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Northrop Grumman CRS mission #11 (NG-11, on Antares 230) (approx. date)
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| 2018 Sep 26 |
The Planetary Society
How LightSail and a NASA Study Helped Pave the Way for Mars-bound CubeSats A good summary of the historical context for the LightSail program
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| 2018 Aug 14 |
JPL
ASTERIA Wins Small Satellite Mission of the Year Award 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).
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| 2018 Aug 10 |
MIT
ASTERIA Measures Exoplanet Transit - A First for CubeSats Ecliptic designed and produced ASTERIA's core imaging focal plane electronics circuit board and related software/firmware
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| 2018 Aug 09 |
Noozhawk (Santa Barbara)
Preparations Underway for NASA’s ICESat-2 Launch Next Month at Vandenberg Air Force Base This will be the last Delta II launch and the last Ecliptic RocketCam video system on the Delta rocket family
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| 2018 Aug 08 |
The Planetary Society
LightSail 2 updates: Launch Date Slips, Environmental Test Complete, New Video Released
A summary of the final Operational Readiness Test for LightSail 2
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| 2018 Aug 08 |
Space News
Rocket Lab Announces Order for 10 Electron Launches from New Dubai Company This article also mentions Ecliptic's hosted payload agreement with Rocket Lab
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| 2018 Aug 07 |
Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation
Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation to Launch Hosted Payloads on Rocket Lab’s Electron Rockets This release announces out new collaboration with Rocket Lab
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| 2018 Jul 26 |
The Planetary Society
LightSail-2 Team Completes Key Mission Review and Dress Rehearsal Following final testing at AFRL in late July, LightSail 2 will be ready for launch!
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| 2018 Jun 06 |
SpaceTech Asia
Singapore, Australia Student Experiments Being Run On ISS Bhattacharya Space Enterprises procured the ISS experiment kits from Ecliptic
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| 2018 May 25 |
Spaceflight Now
Rocket Lab Updates Launch Window for First Commercial Mission Ecliptic assisted Rocket Lab with accommodating the German NABEO payload on this Electron mission
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