Sail on! Bill Nye and others celebrate LightSail 2’s three years in space
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The Future of Space Exploration
We twist twice every orbit, intentionally trying to do 90 degree twists. Every 28 orbits or so, we do a couple o hour d tumble where we stop doing any rotation of the spacecraft other than the spacecraft in its little computer brain. We've found a two day cadence actually seems to work pretty well. The madagascar pictures are going to be jawdroppingly fantastic.
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