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LightSail, Planetary Society's Solar Sail mission (Redux)
Juramike
post Nov 9 2009, 09:02 PM
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post Nov 11 2009, 09:15 PM
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Not necessarily a bad thing. Thoughful technical criticism is valuable regardless of the source, and this is free to boot! smile.gif Nobody ever sees all aspects of an issue, which is one reason why systems engineering was invented.


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post Nov 12 2009, 02:35 PM
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"humans may soon be solar-sailing".
Who on Earth can create such a stupid misleading comment for an artists impression ?

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post Nov 13 2009, 04:57 AM
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Re: "humans may soon be solar-sailing"

The illustration is of the very light sail that the Planetary Society hopes to fly by 2011. So, yes, the humans at the Planetary Society will hopefully be solar-sailing soon. Vicariously to be sure. smile.gif

By the way, google the artist, he seems quite accomplished.

"LightSail-1 will have four triangular sails, arranged in a diamond shape resembling a giant kite.... We plan to design, develop, build and test the LightSail-1 spacecraft so that it can be ready for launch by the end of 2010."
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Artists rendition of LightSail-1
by Rick Sternbach. Credit: Planetary Society
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- Juramike   LightSail   Nov 9 2009, 09:02 PM
- - djellison   YAY!! Thank you anonymous donator!...   Nov 9 2009, 09:26 PM
- - ngunn   I was wondering what they were about to announce, ...   Nov 9 2009, 09:50 PM
- - PhilCo126   What a way to commemorate the late Dr Carl Sagan.....   Nov 10 2009, 11:53 AM
- - nprev   Nice little article on Reuters....go, TPS, go, Lig...   Nov 11 2009, 01:58 AM
|- - Tom Tamlyn   There's a longer article in the New York Times...   Nov 11 2009, 08:57 PM
- - PhilCo126   75 years: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/cultur...   Nov 11 2009, 03:38 PM
- - nprev   Not necessarily a bad thing. Thoughful technical c...   Nov 11 2009, 09:15 PM
|- - MahFL   "humans may soon be solar-sailing". Who ...   Nov 12 2009, 02:35 PM
|- - centsworth_II   Re: "humans may soon be solar-sailing" ...   Nov 13 2009, 04:57 AM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Nov 12 2009, 08:57...   Nov 13 2009, 05:18 AM
|- - Stu   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Nov 13 2009, 04:57...   Nov 13 2009, 09:07 AM
- - Juramike   Depends on your definition of "soon". G...   Nov 12 2009, 04:00 PM
- - ngunn   Also depends on what you mean by 'solar sailin...   Nov 12 2009, 07:56 PM
|- - Rick Sternbach   QUOTE (ngunn @ Nov 12 2009, 11:56 AM) My ...   Nov 15 2009, 05:20 AM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (Rick Sternbach @ Nov 15 2009, 05:2...   Nov 15 2009, 08:34 AM
||- - Rick Sternbach   QUOTE (ngunn @ Nov 15 2009, 12:34 AM) No ...   Nov 15 2009, 04:28 PM
|- - Stu   QUOTE (Rick Sternbach @ Nov 15 2009, 05:2...   Nov 15 2009, 08:47 AM
- - djellison   I will say - having tried in the past a bit - doin...   Nov 13 2009, 08:44 AM
- - djellison   Your lens flare useage is a diagnosable psychiatri...   Nov 15 2009, 09:12 AM
- - Stu   RE: LightSail   Nov 15 2009, 09:27 AM
- - PDP8E   The Brits have a killer app for sail-tech http://...   Mar 30 2010, 04:39 PM
- - punkboi   LightSail-1 Passes Critical Design Review http://...   Jun 30 2010, 06:34 AM
- - punkboi   LightSail-1 Video Update: Construction Begins...   Oct 20 2010, 03:00 AM
|- - James Sorenson   I'm curious if the camera's that were show...   Oct 22 2010, 06:05 PM
- - punkboi   The article below mentions three upcoming NASA mis...   Jul 16 2012, 11:23 PM
- - Explorer1   Almost two years since the last post; here's a...   Jun 4 2014, 11:57 PM
- - punkboi   Another update by The Planetary Society: "Li...   Jun 19 2014, 12:34 AM
- - punkboi   Can't wait for the announcement! "Li...   Jun 28 2014, 01:32 AM
- - punkboi   "LightSail update: Of booms and pretty pictur...   Jul 2 2014, 03:03 AM
- - Juramike   Will launch on a Falcon Heavy in Spring 2016.   Jul 10 2014, 02:23 AM
- - punkboi   Drat. LightSail-A Has a Blown Radio Amplifier. No...   Jul 23 2014, 09:47 PM
- - punkboi   Nice! LightSail Sails through Day-in-the-Life...   Sep 25 2014, 08:47 AM
- - punkboi   More LightSail Day-in-the-Life Multimedia, and a C...   Oct 1 2014, 07:01 AM
- - punkboi   LightSail Completes Testing, Announcement Expected...   Dec 12 2014, 04:58 PM
- - pitcapuozzo   T-7h 30mins!   May 20 2015, 07:31 AM
|- - gwiz   LightSail deployed successfully yesterday, amateur...   Jun 8 2015, 11:16 AM
- - elakdawalla   Wondering if anybody here can do better than I did...   Jun 9 2015, 12:54 AM
- - ngunn   For anyone not already following, the complete ver...   Jun 9 2015, 07:48 PM
- - jamescanvin   Here is an attempt to reproject the image to get a...   Jun 9 2015, 10:00 PM


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