{"id":141104,"date":"2022-06-25T21:02:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/lightsail-2-celebrates-3rd-space-birthday-as-end-of-mission-approaches"},"modified":"2022-06-25T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:02:21","slug":"lightsail-2-celebrates-3rd-space-birthday-as-end-of-mission-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/lightsail-2-celebrates-3rd-space-birthday-as-end-of-mission-approaches","title":{"rendered":"LightSail 2 celebrates 3rd space birthday as end of mission approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lightsail-2-celebrates-3rd-space-birthday-as-end-of-mission-approaches2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mission, far beyond its design lifetime, may fall into the atmosphere in a few months.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A solar-sailing mission is now marking three years of spaceflight, but is unlikely to celebrate a fourth anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The Planetary Society\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/lightsail-2-solar-sail-mission-success.html\">LightSail 2<\/a> is a crowdfunded solar sail that launched June 25, 2019. It was expected to last a year in an assessment of how well a spacecraft could perform using only the power of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html\">sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission, far beyond its design lifetime, may fall into the atmosphere in a few months. A solar-sailing mission is now marking three years of spaceflight, but is unlikely to celebrate a fourth anniversary. The Planetary Society\u2019s LightSail 2 is a crowdfunded solar sail that launched June 25, 2019. It was expected to last a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141104","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}