Following the successful resumption of communications with the LightSail spacecraft the mission team are planning to deploy the Solar Sails on Wednesday this week.
They were looking to deploy on Tuesday but to ensure everything is working as needed they added an extra day to the plan.
The LightSail team will use tomorrow for a final Operational Readiness Test to characterize end-to-end image capture and downlink process.
— Jason Davis (@jasonrdavis) June 1, 2015
To ensure they don’t run into another issue with the spacecraft they are also planning a reboot event each day as highlighted by Jason Davis via Twitter
So instead, they’re going to reboot LightSail once per day and go full speed ahead on sail deployment (providing Monday is a good day).
— Jason Davis (@jasonrdavis) June 1, 2015
We will post an article once confirmation of Sail deployment which should also include images of the deployment.
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