The photon surfing spacecraft was a victim of atmospheric drag, bringing the pioneering mission to a close.
sometime on November 17, burning up during its descent, but the mission successfully demonstrated the use of sunlight to propel“LightSail 2 is gone after more than three glorious years in the sky, blazing a trail of lift with light, and proving that we could defy gravity by tacking a sail in space,” Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society, said in a statement.
LightSail 2 launched in June 2019 and unfurled its giant 344-square-foot solar sail about a month after reaching orbit. Its solar sail ran on photons from the Sun, which propelledThe spacecraft started off at an altitude of around 450 miles , where Earth’s atmosphere is still thick enough to slow it down by way of atmospheric drag. But LightSail 2 persevered, gaining 2 miles of altitude just two weeks into the mission.
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