- A tiny solar-sailing spacecraft has gone silent in Earth orbit - LightSail, a CubeSat designed and built by the nonprofit Planetary Society, stopped beaming data home on Friday, just two days after it blasted off along with the United States Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane. http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/no-smooth-solar-sailing-glitch-knocks-out-lightsail-spacecraft-orbit-n365651 4 comments technology
- A tiny solar-sailing spacecraft has gone silent in Earth orbit - LightSail, a CubeSat designed and built by the nonprofit Planetary Society, stopped beaming data home on Friday, just two days after it blasted off along with the United States Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane. http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/no-smooth-solar-sailing-glitch-knocks-out-lightsail-spacecraft-orbit-n365651 46 comments space
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- Software Glitch Pauses LightSail Test Mission | The Planetary Society http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2015/20150526-software-glitch-pauses-ls-test.html 15 comments
- LightSail Solar Sail Test Flight Stalled by Software Glitch | Space http://www.space.com/29502-lightsail-solar-sail-software-glitch.html 0 comments
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