{"id":11853,"date":"2015-12-04T13:39:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T18:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11853"},"modified":"2015-12-04T13:39:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T18:39:52","slug":"video-the-lightsail-launch-the-planetary-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11853","title":{"rendered":"Video: The LightSail Launch &#8211; The Planetary Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a video from\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/planetary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planetary Society<\/a>\u00a0about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sail.planetary.org\/\" target=\"_d\">LightSail<\/a>\u00a0project, which flew its first test solar sail last summer.<\/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\/00IkjTmpl-Y?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>Here&#8217;s an abbreviated version of the above video:<\/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\/iWC7RHHHrc4?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>Here is a video from\u00a0the Planetary Society\u00a0about the\u00a0LightSail\u00a0project, which flew its first test solar sail last summer. Here&#8217;s an abbreviated version of the above video:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-35b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12272,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12272","url_meta":{"origin":11853,"position":0},"title":"Video: Planetary Society&#8217;s LightSail 2 tests its sail","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is an update on the Planetary Society's LightSail 2 project:\u00a0Meet LightSail 2, The Planetary Society's new solar sailing CubeSat -\u00a0The Planetary Society. 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