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LightSail, Planetary Society's Solar Sail mission (Redux)
Juramike
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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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