
05/29/2015 The Planetary Society is blaming a software glitch for causing its LightSail-A CubeSat to go dark, but the organization’s satellite team is hoping the situation is temporary and that it can reboot the CubeSat’s onboard computer. In a lengthy blog post, the Planetary Society’s Jason Davis said the LightSail mission “is paused, while engineers wait out a suspected software glitch that has silenced the solar sailing spacecraft.” “Following a successful start to the mission last Wednesday [May 20], LightSail spent more than 2 days sending about 140 data packets back to Earth,” Davis recounted. “But the long Memorial Day […]