{"id":131019,"date":"2021-11-21T19:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T03:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/lightsail-2-has-been-flying-in-space-for-30-months-paving-the-way-for-future-solar-sail-missions"},"modified":"2021-11-21T19:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T03:23:04","slug":"lightsail-2-has-been-flying-in-space-for-30-months-paving-the-way-for-future-solar-sail-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/lightsail-2-has-been-flying-in-space-for-30-months-paving-the-way-for-future-solar-sail-missions","title":{"rendered":"LightSail 2 Has Been Flying in Space for 30 Months \u2014 Paving the Way for Future Solar Sail Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uDYkxHQ7X78?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even after 30 months in space, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/sci-tech\/lightsail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Planetary Society\u2019s LightSail 2 mission<\/a> continues to successfully \u201csail on sunbeams\u201d demonstrating solar sail technology in Earth orbit. The mission is providing hard data for future missions that hope to employ solar sails to explore the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>LightSail 2, a small cubesat, launched in June 2019 on a SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>Commonly known as SpaceX, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company that was founded by Elon Musk in 2002. Headquartered in Hawthorne, California, the company designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even after 30 months in space, The Planetary Society\u2019s LightSail 2 mission continues to successfully \u201csail on sunbeams\u201d demonstrating solar sail technology in Earth orbit. The mission is providing hard data for future missions that hope to employ solar sails to explore the cosmos. LightSail 2, a small cubesat, launched in June 2019 on a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}