{"id":8008,"date":"2014-06-03T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8008"},"modified":"2014-06-03T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T23:05:11","slug":"misc-lightsail-update-a-big-rocky-exoplanet-latest-space-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8008","title":{"rendered":"Misc: Lightsail update + A big rocky exoplanet + Latest Space Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An update on the Planetary Society&#8217;s solar sail project: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/jason-davis\/2014\/20140602-lightsail-is-happening.html\" target=\"_d\">LightSail is happening, and I&#8217;ll be your new guide &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>A new and odder than usual exoplanet:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Astronomers have discovered a rocky planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size. This discovery has planet formation theorists challenged to explain how such a world could have formed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ames\/kepler\/astronomers-confounded-by-massive-rocky-world\/#.U45UIyjiiM0\" target=\"_d\">Astronomers Confounded By Massive Rocky World &#8211; NASA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>The articles in the latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/\" target=\"_d\">The Space Review:<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2523\/1\" target=\"_d\">Cislunar cinema (part 2)<\/a> &#8211; Part 2 of his Ken Murphy&#8217;s review of\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2518\/1\" target=\"_d\">Cislunar cinema (part 1)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2526\/1\" target=\"_d\">Decision time for commercial crew<\/a> &#8211; Jeff Foust reports on the SpaceX Dragon V2 roll out and NASA&#8217;s upcoming down-select in the commercial crew program.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2524\/1\" target=\"_d\">The prospect of a grand Africa-Europe partnership to accelerate space development<\/a> &#8211; space and African development<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2525\/1\" target=\"_d\">Secret optics<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; video interview with a spysat builder<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2522\/1\" target=\"_d\">Review: The Cosmic Cocktail<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0691153353\/spaceviews\">The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter<\/a><br \/>\nby Katherine Freese<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update on the Planetary Society&#8217;s solar sail project: LightSail is happening, and I&#8217;ll be your new guide &#8211; The Planetary Society === A new and odder than usual exoplanet: Astronomers have discovered a rocky planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size. This discovery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8008\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Misc: Lightsail update + A big rocky exoplanet + Latest Space Review<\/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_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":[46,7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exoplanets","category-space-policy","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-25a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24222,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=24222","url_meta":{"origin":8008,"position":0},"title":"ESO: Rocky exoplanet with half the mass of Venus detected with VLT","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Latest report from the European Southern Observatory (ESO): New ESO observations show rocky exoplanet has just half the mass of Venus A team of astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) in Chile to shed new light on planets around a nearby star, L 98-59,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/eso2112a1-500x293.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8085,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8085","url_meta":{"origin":8008,"position":1},"title":"Update on Planetary Society&#8217;s LightSail project","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest update on the Planetary Society's LightSail\u00a0project and links to the previous entries in the series: LightSail update: Boom deployment diagnosis continues LightSail update: Flight system test delayed LightSail is happening, and I'll be your new guide LightSail artwork by Rick Sternbach Here is a\u00a0video showing a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Activism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"lightsail_art_rs_compressed_f840","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lightsail_art_rs_compressed_f840-300x206.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10622,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10622","url_meta":{"origin":8008,"position":2},"title":"Planetary Society LightSail in orbit","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The Atlas V launch mentioned earlier went off well on Wednesday: https:\/\/youtu.be\/l7Riq9rr4ao The X-37B and the ten CubeSats secondary payloads were deployed, including the Planetary Society's LightSail and it began transmitting its status: Liftoff! 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