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LightSail Wakes Up After Silent Spell and Tries To Spread Solar Sails

An anonymous reader writes: After a second outage LightSail's controllers have re-established contact with the experimental spacecraft, and plan to begin the process for unfurling its photo voltaic sails. LightSail is a solar sail propelled test spacecraft that was launched on May 20. Two days later, it went offline because of a software glitch. "It's exciting," said William Sanford Nye, the [Planetary] society's chief executive, who is better known as Bill Nye the Science Guy. "It's anxious. It's anxiety producing."

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  1. Re: Niggers gonna nigger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Racists gonna racism. You're not clever and considered worse than a pile of dog shit in normal peoples eyes.