LightSail
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LightSail is a project to demonstrate controlled solar sailing within low Earth orbit using a CubeSat. The project was developed by The Planetary Society, a global non-profit organization devoted to space exploration. It consists of two spacecraft — LightSail 1 and LightSail 2. LightSail 1 was an engineering demonstration mission designed to test its new sail deployment method in space, it did not perform solar sailing. LightSail 2 was a fully functional spacecraft intended to demonstrate true solar sailing and incorporated the lessons learned from LightSail 1. LightSail is a follow-on project to Cosmos 1 — a solar-sail spacecraft designed by The Planetary Society in the early 2000s, which was destroyed during a launch failure in 2005.
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LightSail 1 with deployed solar sails bathed in the light of the SunLightSail 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 after a boom deployment test at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
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| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| commons | image | LightSail 1 with deployed solar sails bathed in the light of the Sun | Commons | ||
| commons | image | LightSail 1 with deployed solar sails bathed in the light of the Sun | Commons | ||
| commons | image | LightSail 1 with deployed solar sail (cropped) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | LightSail 2 after a boom deployment test at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. | Commons | ||
| commons | image | LightSail 2 after a boom deployment test at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Concept art of The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Image source: planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/data/ls2/all.html. The Planetary Society/Kevin M. Gill | Commons | ||
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