{"id":613,"date":"2009-12-06T13:44:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T17:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orbitalhub.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2009-12-06T13:44:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T17:44:58","slug":"planetary-societys-lightsail-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Society&#8217;s LightSail Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<div style=\"float: left;\">\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/light-sail-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"LightSail-1 (Credits: The Planetary Society)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" title=\"LightSail-1\" src=\"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/light-sail-1-low.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><small>Credits: The Planetary Society<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">After its first solar sail spacecraft Cosmos-1 was lost due to a faulty launch vehicle, the Planetary Society remained committed to the mission of building a solar sail spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">The new solar sail project, called LightSail, will consist of three spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">The first spacecraft, LightSail-1, is designed around a CubeSat spacecraft bus, has a thirty-two square meter sail, and will demonstrate the concept of solar sail navigation. The Planetary Society estimates that LightSail-1 will be ready for launch by the end of 2010. LightSail-1 will fly as a secondary payload on another mission, which is the traditional method of deploying micro and nano satellites, in order to decrease the cost of the mission. While LightSail-1 is a test platform for new technologies, LightSail 2 and 3 will carry scientific payloads in orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">You can be part of the LightSail program. Visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/programs\/projects\/solar_sailing\/\">The Planetary Society website<\/a> and see how you can help make a dream reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After its first solar sail spacecraft Cosmos-1 was lost, the Planetary Society remained committed to the mission of building a solar sail spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[308,309,310,311],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-exploration","tag-lightsail","tag-lightsail-1","tag-lightsail-2","tag-lightsail-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}