Cassini Update AND LightSail Spreads its Wings!

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 9 June 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker, returns with another update on the magnificent mission at Saturn. You’ll also hear Bill Nye and the moment when LightSail began to deploy its solar sail.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Back to Saturn with Linda Spilker this week on planetary radio.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:13.2	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:15.7	The Cassini Mission Project Scientist is back with another exciting update for us, but before
0:21.1	we talk with Linda, there's this other project that has had a good week.
0:25.9	On Sunday, June 7th, I was with several Planetary Society colleagues waiting anxiously to hear
0:32.4	if LightSail, the Society's solar sail test mission
0:35.8	would successfully unfurl its wings.
0:38.9	The attempt on an earlier orbit had failed.
0:41.9	It was critical that the sail be deployed this time. We listened
0:45.8	as the mission team did its work.
0:48.4	We have beacon telemetry indicating that our motor current position is still zero,
0:53.0	recommend retransmitting cell deploy.
0:55.0	Please proceed.
0:57.0	We have Beacon data that confirms a motor count position at 18,000. Oh my goodness!
1:15.0	goodness!
1:17.0	He can do it!
1:18.0	He can do it confirms.
1:19.0	This is 50,000.
1:21.0	Right.
1:22.0	50,000,000, 50,000 now.
1:24.0	Avionics.
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