Re:LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight b...
by adrianpike on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:53PM
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> retract and expand at will
I think LightSail 2 already does just that, though, but possibly not very efficiently.
From the article:
> LightSail 2's single momentum wheel, which rotates the spacecraft broadside and then edge-on to the Sun each orbit to turn the thrust from solar sailing on and off.
I think LightSail 2 already does just that, though, but possibly not very efficiently.
From the article:
> LightSail 2's single momentum wheel, which rotates the spacecraft broadside and then edge-on to the Sun each orbit to turn the thrust from solar sailing on and off.