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LightSail Team Prepares for Possible Tuesday Sail Deployment

Posted: 30 May 2015 09:08 PM PDT
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason...ay-deploy.html

LightSail is almost ready for its moment in the sun. Mission managers gave
the go-ahead for a manual solar sail deployment as early as Tuesday.

Here is hoping the deploy is successful.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer