Lightsail A

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General

Designation	40661 / 15025L
Launch date	20 May 2015
Country of origin	United States
Mission	Technology
Perigee/Apogee	362/708 km
Inclination	55°
Period	95 min
Launch vehicle	Atlas 5 #54

Solar sail project from the Planetary Society.
It is a kite shaped satellite in 3 triangles of mylar, totaling 32 square meters. Based on a 3U cubesat.
To enlighten on the possibility of using sun light as a propulsion mean.

Sail was deployed on 3 Jun.

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End of life

Cause	End of experiment
Decay	14 Jun 2015

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External resources

http://sail.planetary.org/

sat-index articles

n2yo.com tracking

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