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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Private Missions _ Send Your Name Into Space onboard Lightsail-1 and IKAROS

Posted by: punkboi Dec 11 2009, 10:58 PM

The Planetary Society is collecting names and messages to be placed on its Lightsail-1 spacecraft...as well as another solar sail that will be launched with Japan's Akatsuki mission to Venus next year:

http://www.planetary.org/special/fromearth/sail

The deadline is March 14

Posted by: punkboi Apr 17 2010, 07:37 PM

The DVD was installed on IKAROS last night.

http://twitter.com/ikaroskun/status/12337727130

The grammar is a bit off when you translate it on Google or http://translation.babylon.com/Japanese/to-English/, but you get the idea

Posted by: elakdawalla Apr 17 2010, 10:01 PM

I think it says they received the DVD. The subsequent Tweet says it'll be mounted next week. At least that's what I think it means. The http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://twitter.com/ikaroskun/status/12337737428&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhioxHXmGOsMr42cPqJuDIsL_iQcDQ turns out a bit naughty.

Posted by: nprev Apr 17 2010, 10:10 PM

I foresee many years of hilarity ahead as JAXA becomes a major player in UMSF!

Posted by: punkboi Apr 18 2010, 01:56 AM

The Babylon translation is even more horrendous.

If only there was an English version of the IKAROS Twitter page...like the http://twitter.com/JAXA_en

Posted by: punkboi Apr 22 2010, 05:57 PM

EDIT: The DVD was attached to IKAROS on April 25 (using Velcro).

http://twitter.com/ikaroskun/status/12800570532