A Light Sail Solar Sailing Update

This Week on Planetary Radio.

Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society, ready to talk with another one of my colleagues.

Jason Davis is the Embedded Reporter with the Light Sale Project now headed for its test launch from Cape Canaveral on May 20th.

Bill Nye has had a big week including a celebration of Earth Day with President Barack Obama.

Like me, Bruce Betts is returned from the Planetary Defense Conference in Italy,

and he's ready to take us on another what's up tour of the night sky.

By the way, more great content from the PDC is coming in the weeks ahead.

First, though, we head back to Comet 67P where things are really heating up.

That's according to senior editor Emily Lockawala.

Emily, we look back a few days to... According to

Emily Loch Duwala.

Emily, we look back a few days to a blog that you posted on the 21st of April.

All the latest from Rosetta, some pretty spectacular images not surprisingly.

Yeah, you know, it's been a long time since I've checked in on Rosetta, which I feel really terrible about,

but there's just so much happening in space exploration right now.

It's kind of hard to pay attention to everything.

So it was two months of activities that I had to

summarize here and it turns out that Rosette has done two very close flybys of the

comet and the last one actually caused it some real problems where little dust particles that have been

floating off the comet spoofed at star trackers and made it difficult to navigate.

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