LightSail Solar Sail Test Flight Stalled by Software Glitch

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 18:30 in Astronomy & Space

LightSail, a CubeSat designed and built by the nonprofit Planetary Society, stopped beaming data home on Friday (May 22), just two days after it blasted off along with the United States Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane.

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