{"id":10622,"date":"2015-05-21T15:58:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T19:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10622"},"modified":"2015-05-21T15:58:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T19:58:01","slug":"planetary-society-lightsail-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10622","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Society LightSail in orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlas V launch <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10614\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned earlier<\/a> went off well on Wednesday:<\/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\/l7Riq9rr4ao?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<p>The X-37B and the ten CubeSats secondary payloads were deployed, including the Planetary Society&#8217;s LightSail and it began transmitting its status:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/jason-davis\/2015\/20150520-lightsail-liftoff.html\" target=\"_d\">Liftoff! LightSail Sails into Space aboard Atlas V Rocket &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/jason-davis\/2015\/20150520-lightsail-first-data.html\" target=\"_d\">LightSail Sends First Data Back to Earth &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today it continues to look in good shape &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/jason-davis\/2015\/20150521-lightsail-update-systems-nominal.html?referrer=http:\/\/digg.com\/reader\/feed\/http%3A%2F%2Fdigg.com%2Fuser%2F4364669887d4492db1241543dc1bebd4%2Fitems%2Fall.rss\" target=\"_d\">LightSail Update: All Systems Nominal &#8211;\u00a0The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonrdavis\/status\/601440068109082624\" target=\"_d\">Jason Davis on Twitter:<\/a>\u00a0#LightSail update: all systems remain nominal. 53 beacon packets have been received thus far, trends look good.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can follow developments with the LightSail at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sail.planetary.org\/missioncontrol\" target=\"_d\">Mission Control Center | The Planetary Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Deployment of the solar sail is currently set for June 17th.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlas V launch mentioned earlier went off well on Wednesday: The X-37B and the ten CubeSats secondary payloads were deployed, including the Planetary Society&#8217;s LightSail and it began transmitting its status: Liftoff! LightSail Sails into Space aboard Atlas V Rocket &#8211; The Planetary Society LightSail Sends First Data Back to Earth &#8211; The Planetary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10622\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planetary Society LightSail in orbit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-10622","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-2Lk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10345,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10345","url_meta":{"origin":10622,"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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