Tag: California Polytechnic State University
Lightsail 2 spacecraft’s solar sail deploys
Photos transmitted from The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft orbiting Earth confirm that it has successfully deployed its solar sail. The spacecraft was launched from Florida last month and images from this week’s deployment sequence were downlinked from the orbiter by flight controllers at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. One image shows…