Ready to Sail! LightSail 2 Deploys its Silvery Wings

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Join us as the little cubesat successfully unfurls its solar sail. You’ll hear from members of the LightSail 2 mission team on the morning of July 23, 2019, when the critical command was sent to the spacecraft. Then we’ll congratulate Kris Zacny of Honeybee Robotics on the selection by NASA of the radically-simple PlanetVac sample collection system for a trip to the Moon. Learn more about both of this week’s topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/0724-2019-lightsail2-deployment-kris-zacny-planetvac.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	135, 786, cell deployment complete.
0:05.0	All right.
0:06.0	All right.
0:08.0	Light sale spreads its wings this week on planetary radio.
0:14.0	Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:26.8	And that was the moment we learned that LightSail II had successfully deployed its solar
0:32.2	sail. I was there in the Mission
0:34.9	Operations Center at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as the team celebrated the moment.
0:41.3	I rushed down the California coast soon after so that I could
0:44.6	share it and more with you. Stay tuned later for a brief check-in with Honeybee
0:49.8	robotics, Chris Sackney. Chris will tell us about the selection by NASA of PlanetVac for a trip to the Moon.
0:57.0	But first, it's late morning on July 23rd.
1:01.0	We're in the Cal Poly School of Engineering, specifically the home of Polysat, the Cubsat
1:08.0	Research Lab, run by John Balardo. John is one of the six mission controllers sitting at laptops displaying
1:15.6	every intricate detail regarding Light Sale 2. To John's left is project manager
1:22.0	Dave Spencer.
1:22.8	And next to Dave is the Light Sale Program Manager, Bruce Betts.
1:28.0	Good morning, Bruce.
1:29.0	Good morning, man.
1:30.5	Set the scene here.
1:31.6	Tell us about what's going on.
1:34.0	We're in the Polysat lab at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo getting ready for sale deployment of LightSail
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