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devoted to
space exploration. It
consists of two
spacecraft —
LightSail 1 and
LightSail 2.
LightSail 1 was an
engineering demonstration mission designed to test...
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lightsail may reference: a
solar sail for
spacecraft propulsion LightSail, a
solar sail
cubesat by The
Planetary Society Amazon Lightsail, a computing...
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LightSail Energy (2008–2018) was an
American compressed air
energy storage technology startup. The
company shut down in 2018,
failing to
produce a product...
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after liftoff.
LightSail was
originally conceived as a
series of
three solar sail
experiments but
later shortened to two missions.
LightSail 1
launched on...
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scientist and entrepreneur. She was the co-founder and
chief scientist of
LightSail Energy. Fong was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was
raised in Dartmouth...
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Solar sails (also
known as
lightsails,
light sails, and
photon sails) are a
method of
spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight...
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Retrieved December 21, 2016. Barr, Jeff (November 30, 2016). "Amazon
Lightsail – The
Power of AWS, the
Simplicity of a VPS".
Amazon Web Services. Archived...
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final spacecraft velocities by the
rocket equation. A laser-pushed
lightsail is a thin
reflective sail
similar to a
solar sail, in
which the sail is...
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launch vehicles led to a
redesign similar to NanoSail-D,
called LightSail-1,
announced in
November 2009. To test the
solar sail concept, the Cosmos...
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Rockwell Collins Deutschland.
LightSail 2 was
launched on 25 June 2019,
focused around the
concept of a
solar sail.
LightSail 2 uses a
reaction wheel system...
