LightSail

project to demonstrate controlled solar sailing. 

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  LightSail-1 2015
  
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  LightSail-2 2019
  

LightSail-1 – LightSail-2 – 

Frameless

Concept art of The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft

Image source: planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/data/ls2/all.html. The Planetary Society/Kevin M. Gill

LightSail 1 with deployed solar sails bathed in the light of the Sun

LightSail 1 with deployed solar sail (cropped)

LightSail 2 after a boom deployment test at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

LightSail 2 deploying its solar sail for the first time

Missing data copied from another part of image. Applied color and contrast enhancement. [Updated 10/16/2020]: Denoising and better handling of reds in the clouds. The Planetary Society/Kevin M. Gill

Type	Date	Description	Keywords	Notes	Source
link		Freebase entry@			Wikidata
vessel	2015	LightSail-1	former entity, The Planetary Society, CubeSat, technology demonstration spacecraft		Wikidata
vessel	2019	LightSail-2	The Planetary Society, CubeSat, technology demonstration spacecraft		Wikidata
image	2017	Concept art of The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft			Wikimedia
image	2020	Image source: planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/data/ls2/all.html. The Planetary Society/Kevin M. Gill			Wikimedia
image	2015	LightSail 1 with deployed solar sails bathed in the light of the Sun			Wikimedia
image	2015	LightSail 1 with deployed solar sail (cropped)			Wikimedia
image	2016	LightSail 2 after a boom deployment test at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.			Wikimedia
image	2019	LightSail 2 deploying its solar sail for the first time			Wikimedia
image	2019	Missing data copied from another part of image. Applied color and contrast enhancement. [Updated 10/16/2020: Denoising and better handling of reds in the clouds. The Planetary Society/Kevin M. Gill]			Wikimedia

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