Crowdfunded, Solar-powered Spacecraft Goes Silent

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By SoulskillMay 29, 2015, 10:22 am74 pts
Last week saw the successful launch of the Planetary Society's LightSail spacecraft, the solar-powered satellite that runs Linux and was crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The spacecraft worked flawlessly for two days, but then fell silent, and the engineering team has been working hard on a fix ever since. They've…

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