Flight by Light: A LightSail 2 Mission Preview

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The day is almost here. With the launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket, The Planetary Society will begin its mission to prove that a tiny, orbiting spacecraft can be propelled by the light of the Sun. Society Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Vaughn provides a passionate history of our efforts and reviews the opportunities for everyone to get involved. Then LightSail Program Manager Bruce Betts and Digital Editor Jason Davis will dig into this amazing mission and spacecraft. Society CEO Bill Nye will make the basics of solar sailing fun in his special presentation, right after this week’s What’s Up segment. Learn more about all of this week’s topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/0619-2019-lightsail-2-preview.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Flight by Light, A Light Sail Preview this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:17.0	This time we've got a special look ahead at the Mission of Litesale 2.
0:23.0	I may already be on Florida's space coast as you hear this eagerly, anxiously looking forward
0:29.0	to the launch of the Planetary Society's little Cubesat. Bruce Betts and Jason Davis will tell you what to expect in minutes
0:36.0	and we've got a special treat at the end of today's show
0:40.0	when Society CEO Bill Nye the Science Guy will explain the basics of solar sailing.
0:46.0	What's up with Bruce is also ahead?
0:48.6	We'll begin by spending a few minutes with the Chief Operating Officer of the Planetary Society.
0:54.0	Jennifer Vaughn was already Bill's second in command
0:57.0	when our test mission, Light Sale 1, lifted off.
1:00.0	She is even more excited to see this first attempt to use the light of the sun to propel our
1:06.4	silver-winged spacecraft.
1:08.4	Jennifer, we don't hear from you often enough on planetary radio.
1:12.4	This certainly gives us a wonderful reason. I was going to say
1:16.5	excuse to get you heard directly on the show. Thank you for joining us to talk a little bit about
1:22.4	this wonderful mission that is about to begin.
1:25.0	Thank you, Matt. I am so excited to be here and I am fired up about LightSail.
1:30.0	As are we all, 10 years in the making, take us back to the beginnings of this project and then we'll talk
1:40.1	about the even earlier work that the society did with solar sailing.
1:44.5	Yeah, so depending on where you want to start that history line with us, it can go much
1:51.1	further back than 10 years, but 10 years is really what was the beginning of light sale.
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