A new solar-sailing spacecraft will be a call to all (future) occupants of interplanetary craft. The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft will be a test bed for future missions wanting to use ...
LightSail-1 is a citizen-funded mission scheduled to launch in 2016 aboard the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Falcon Heavy rocket. The Planetary Society is testing the use of a solar sail to ...
Less than a year after the LightSail cubesat successfully deployed its solar sails in space, the Planetary Society has unveiled its successor, an experimental spacecraft designated LightSail-2.