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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Y Bruce, What's the Current Status Beyond What You Can See on That Terrific Dashboard?
We are having more trouble communicating and getting data down, but we're still able to do it. It could be the transmitter on the spacecraft, we're still hearing from it. We've had the computers go down and have major issues that coordinate the two ground stations then we lose all communication. And then we just have uncertainty, because we not only have a challenge of communicating with a little tiny transmitter and a little, tiny antenna on an object that's hundreds of hundreds of kilometers away. But also, we've got this big radio reflective thing, this sail, which also complicates and limits how good the signal is depending on what orientation the spacecraft is at. So i could go on and
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