{"id":10195,"date":"2015-03-20T15:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T19:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10195"},"modified":"2015-03-20T15:26:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T19:26:05","slug":"video-preparing-planetary-societys-lightsail-for-may-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10195","title":{"rendered":"Video: Preparing Planetary Society&#8217;s LightSail for May launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief update on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\" target=\"_blank\">Planetary Society<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"sail.planetary.org\" target=\"_blank\">LightSail project<\/a>, which will launch a prototype in May as a secondary payload on an Atlas V rocket:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jCUc5skW7ic?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief update on the Planetary Society&#8216;s LightSail project, which will launch a prototype in May as a secondary payload on an Atlas V rocket:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,35,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-diy-space","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2Er","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10345,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10345","url_meta":{"origin":10195,"position":0},"title":"Video: Planetary Society Lightsail-A prepared for May launch","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The video shows highlights of the preparation of the\u00a0Planetary Society's\u00a0LightSail - A\u00a0for its launch to orbit in May on an Atlas V rocket: In January 2015, the LightSail team had their last chance to touch the LightSail-A Spacecraft. 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