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LightSail-2
Solar sail spacecraft demonstrator. LightSail-2 was launched on June 25, 2019 aboard a Falcon Heavy from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: reentered (orbital decay) (Nov 17, 2022).
COSPAR 2019-036ACNORAD 44420United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- LightSail-2
- Payload designation
- LightSail-B
- International designator
- 2019-036AC
- NORAD catalog number
- 44420
- GCAT identifier
- S44420
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/942
Mission
- Mission type
- Technology
- Use
- Amateur / academic
- Program
- TPS
- Owner
- PlanSoc
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Stellar Exploration, Inc.
- Platform (bus)
- Cubesat 3U
Launch
- Date
- June 25, 2019 · 06:30 UTC
- Launch record
- 2019-036Success
- Rocket
- Falcon Heavy
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC39A
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LEO/E
- Perigee
- 709 km
- Apogee
- 725 km
- Inclination
- 24.00°
- Status
- Reentered (orbital decay)
- Status date
- November 17, 2022
- Last known active
- November 2022
- End of operations
- Nov 14, 2022
Size
- Mass
- 4 kg
- Dry mass
- 4 kg
- Length
- 0.3 m
- Diameter
- 0.10 m
- Span
- 5.5 m
Launched together
Deep Space Atomic ClockTechnology · GA-EMSGreen Propellant Infusion MissionTechnology · NASA MSFCCOSMIC 2-3Meteorology · NSPODemonstration and Science ExperimentsTechnology · AFRL/RVFalconSat 7Technology · USAF AcademyCOSMIC 2-1Meteorology · NSPOCOSMIC 2-4Meteorology · NSPOCOSMIC 2-2Meteorology · NSPOCOSMIC 2-6Meteorology · NSPOPSAT-2Communications · USNA
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q96142561 (CC0).