A Helicopter for Mars and a Major LightSail Announcement

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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It will be the first flying machine on another world. Mars Helicopter Project Manager MiMi Aung shares her plans. There’s big news about The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2! You’ll hear it from embedded reporter Jason Davis and from LightSail Program Manager Bruce Betts, along with Bruce’s regular What’s Up look at the night sky. Learn more about this week’s guests and topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/0731-2019-mars-helicopter-lightsail-2-success.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A helicopter on Mars and a very big announcement this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our
0:16.7	solar system and beyond.
0:18.9	Mimi and her team at the Jet Propulsion Lab are putting the final touches on the first
0:24.6	flying machine heading for the red planet.
0:28.2	Actually, the first flying machine headed anywhere off Earth.
0:32.0	Join me in minutes for a great conversation
0:34.1	about this tiny innovative example of exciting space technology.
0:39.3	And speaking of tiny innovative space tech,
0:42.2	Jason Davis of the planetary society is here to share
0:45.2	that big news. As you know, the Society's LightSail 2 CubSAT is in orbit and has deployed
0:52.4	its 5.6 meter sail.
0:55.0	The core mission team has been working to stabilize the spacecraft
0:58.0	and iron out a few remaining problems.
1:01.0	Just getting light sail up there and unfurling the sale were pretty impressive, but these didn't mean the mission was successful.
1:09.0	Now, well, all right, Jason, I've teased everybody
1:13.4	what is the big news, which is becoming available
1:16.8	only as this episode becomes available online and elsewhere.
1:21.2	Yeah, you've got the hot off the press scoop here.
1:24.0	Yeah, so today the Litesale team is announcing that they have successfully raised the spacecraft's
1:32.2	orbit using nothing but solar sailing.
1:35.0	So that is the entire goal of the mission and they're calling it a mission success at this point.
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