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 ...

Update, June 24 at 9:20 p.m. EDT: SpaceX has announced they are now targeting a 2:30 a.m. EDT (0630 GMT) launch time, three hours into their original launch window. This article was co-published on ...

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 ...

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The Planetary Society's LightSail 1 experimental solar sail is due to hitch a ride into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in April 2016, the nonprofit society announced Wednesday. "It's ...

The Planetary Society’s second experiment with low-cost solar propulsion, the LightSail 2, is complete and waiting for a ride aboard SpaceX’s first commercial Falcon Heavy launch later this year.

The Space X rocket set to launch next week will have the latest Cal Poly tech on board, according to school officials. The Space X Falcon Heavy rocket has a 4-hour launch window on Monday night at the ...

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 ...