LightSail A, B
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Technology satellite for The Planetary Society, USA. Launched 2015 with a solar sail deployment experiment. The cubesat went into safe mode a few days after launch but rebooted on 30 May 2015. Its solar panels were deployed on 3 June and the solar sail was unfurled on 7 June at 19:47 GMT. The satellite reentered on 14 June. Cubesat 3U bus.
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