Artist's concept of the Planetary Society's LightSail spacecraft in orbit. A solar sail mission funded entirely by private citizens will launch to Earth orbit just a few months from now. The nonprofit ...

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LightSail 2 is a historic spacecraft that has been in the works at The Planetary Society for the last decade. The spacecraft carrying LightSail 2 was expected to launch on June 22, but that launch has ...

The LightSail 2 consists of a small cubesat about the size of a loaf of bread that will catch a ride inside the PROX-1, a small satellite designed by students at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The Planetary Society gets ready to launch its LightSail -- which travels via photon bombardment -- with the help of a Kickstarter campaign. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and ...

A solar sail mission funded entirely by private citizens will launch to Earth orbit just a few months from now. The nonprofit Planetary Society announced today (Jan. 26) that its first LightSail ...