Tag: Planetary Society

Planetary Society Declares LightSail a Success
By 2015.06.11 1 Comments Read More →

Planetary Society Declares LightSail a Success

Deployed! Image Credit The Planetary Society It was hard won, but after series of scares involving low battery readings, software glitches and communication dropouts, the Planetary Society has declared its cubesat based LightSail experiment a success. The 3U cubesat launched into space as a secondary payload aboard an Atlas V on May 20th, the same […]

Posted in: Advanced propulsion, Crowdsourcing Space Exploration
The Plantary Society’s Orbiting Mars Workshop: Secrecy, But No Falcons
By 2015.04.03 4 Comments Read More →

The Plantary Society’s Orbiting Mars Workshop: Secrecy, But No Falcons

Fact, followed by Editorial Opinion. Beginning in 2012, after NASA somewhat reluctantly adopted the Space Launch System architecture dictated by Congress the previous year, America’s space agency has been pushing the the narrative that it is on “A Journey to Mars.” For anyone looking beyond the hype however, it is has been rather clear that […]

Posted in: Mars, NASA
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