Planetary Radio Live: The LightSail Countdown Begins!

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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LightSail, the Planetary Society’s innovative solar sail cubesat, will ride into space on the huge SpaceX Falcon Heavy, now in development. Bill Nye and others join us for a live celebration of this announcement.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Light sale. The countdown begins this week on planetary radio. Radio. Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the final frontier propelled by light alone.
0:22.1	I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society with excerpts from our big July 9th
0:27.0	webcast that announced how Light Sail the Planetary Society's Solar Sail will reach orbit. You'll hear from key leaders of the project,
0:35.3	from planetary scientist Jim Bell, from scientist and award-winning science fiction author
0:40.3	David Bryn, and from our new light sale project embedded journalist Jason Davis.
0:45.9	We've also got a special solar sailing edition of What's Up with Bruce Betts.
0:50.6	The evening began in front of a capacity crowd at KPCC Southern California Public Radio's Crawford
0:56.0	Family Forum in Pasadena, California.
0:59.0	Thousands more were watching the show online.
1:02.2	The first person I welcomed on stage
1:04.3	was the CEO of the Planetary Society,
1:07.0	Bill Nye the Science Guy.
1:08.3	Here's a sample of Bill's opening remarks.
1:10.8	Through some string of remarkable clerical errors, I had Carl Sagan for astronomy.
1:18.5	He spoke eloquently many times about sailing with sunlight.
1:23.9	Now, this may seem surprising.
1:27.4	Light has no mass.
1:29.8	Photons are massless, yet light has momentum and so people have proposed for many years
1:36.6	that we build spacecraft to take advantage of this and for those of you who are for
1:41.5	some reason not rocket science professionals, weird.
1:45.0	You can either light the engine for a few seconds or even minutes and coast
1:54.4	astonishing distances through space.
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