The Planetary Society says it has regained contact with its LightSail satellite. Last week fears arose that the organization had permanently lost touch with the tiny spacecraft, which launched ...

Planetary Society hails ‘mission success’ after LightSail 2 solar sail raises its orbit. by Alan Boyle on July 31, 2019 at 3:49 pm July 31, 2019 at 5:46 pm.

The non-profit Planetary Society has announced that its LightSail spacecraft will make its first flight in May. The solar-propelled CubeSat will lift off as a piggyback cargo atop an Atlas V ...

The Planetary Society declared its experimental LightSail mission a success Tuesday after receiving a photograph from the small spacecraft showing the deployment of its Mylar solar sail. "The ...

LightSail 2, a spacecraft powered by sunlight is expected to launch on June 22, capping off a yearslong odyssey for The Planetary Society.

In a June 26 video posted to Kickstarter, Bill Nye announced that the Planetary Society surpassed its stretch goal of $1.24 million to fund the 2016 LightSail mission.

The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 team on console prior to sail deployment at the Cal Poly CubeSat lab in San Luis Obispo, California. From left: Barbara Plante, founder and president, Boreal ...

The nonprofit Planetary Society says its LightSail 2 experiment spread out its solar sails today, nearly a month after it rode to orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 is making good on its name, after successfully unfurling its solar sail in orbit so that it can begin propelling itself using the force of light alone.

The LightSail spacecraft, designed and manufactured by The Planetary Society, has lost contact with Earth. The mission, designed to test technologies needed to propel a spacecraft through the ...

Collaborating with the Planetary Society on LightSail are Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and California firms Ecliptic Enterprises Corp., Boreal Space and Stellar Exploration Inc.

It may be "mission accomplished" for the Planetary Society's solar sail experiment, but its privately funded LightSail 2 mission is far from over. Five weeks after LightSail 2's launch aboard a ...