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A good summary of the historical context for the LightSail program2018 Aug 14
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Ecliptic designed and produced ASTERIA's core imaging focal plane electronics circuit board and related software/firmware2018 Aug 08
A summary of the final Operational Readiness Test for LightSail 2
UPCOMING EVENTS
- Nov 1
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Spacecraft separation sequencers (launched on Falcon 9 payload module)
Spaceflight SSO-A (earliest launch date) - Nov 17
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Cygnus
Northrop Grumman CRS mission #10 (NG-10, on Antares 230) (approx. date) - Feb 15
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3U CubeSat integrated with Prox 1 (launched on Falcon Heavy / STP-2 mission)
LightSail-2 solar sailing demo (approx. date) - Mar 15
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Cygnus
Northrop Grumman CRS mission #11 (NG-11, on Antares 230) (approx. date)
LASTEST VIDEO
Ecliptic Conference Activity and Events 2011
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= Ecliptic has a booth or is featured at this conference.
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| 2011 Oct 24 - 27 |
International Telemetering Conference (ITC) [Completed]
Las Vegas, NV
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Organized by the International Foundation for Telemetering
Ecliptic's Rex Ridenoure and Mike Alvarez attending
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| 2011 Oct 19 - 20 |
International Conference on Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (2 days) [Completed]
Las Cruces, NM
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Organized by the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium
Ecliptic President Rex Ridenoure attending
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| 2011 Sep 27 - 29 |
Space 2011 (3 days) [Completed]
Long Beach, CA
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Organized by AIAA
Ecliptic President Rex Ridenoure attending
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| 2011 Jul 28 - 31 |
NewSpace 2011 [Completed]
Mt. View, CA
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Organized by the Space Frontier Foundation
Ecliptic President Rex Ridenoure attending
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2011
Jun 20 - 23
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9th Conference on Low-Cost Planetary Missions [Completed]
Laurel, MD
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Organized by the International Academy of Astronautics
Ecliptic CEO Rex Ridenoure attending and presenting "Spinning Landers: A New Spacecraft Architecture for Low-Cost Solar System Exploration" on Jun 22 ~9:15 am
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2011
May 18 - 22
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International Space Development Conference [Completed]
Huntsville, AL
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Organized by the National Space Society
Ecliptic is a co-sponsor; CEO Rex Ridenoure attending, and presenting "Spinning Landers"
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| 2011 May 18 |
Space Investment Summit 9 [Completed]
Huntsville, AL
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Organized by the Space Investment Coalition
Ecliptic CEO Rex Ridenoure attending
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2011
May 2 - 6
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Responsive Space/Reinventing Space 2011 [Completed]
Los Angeles, CA
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Organized by AIAA
Ecliptic CEO Rex Ridenoure presenting "Onboard Video for Cost-Effective Situational Awareness" @ 2:00 pm on May 5
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2011
Apr 20 - 22
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8th Annual CubeSat Developers' Workshop [Completed]
San Luis Obispo, CA
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Organized by Cal Poly University
Ecliptic engineer Riki Munakata will be presenting a paper on our new P-POD control/monitoring avionics
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| 2011 Apr 11 - 14 |
National Space Symposium [Completed]
Colorado Springs, CO
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Organized by The Space Foundation
Ecliptic CEO Rex Ridenoure and biz-dev rep Dave Yoel attending
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| 2011 Mar 27 - 29 |
GEOScan Workshop: Payloads on Iridium NEXT [Completed]
Annapolis, MD
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Hosted by APL; Sponsored by NSF
Ecliptic CEO Rex Ridenoure attending Mar 27-30
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| 2011 Mar 14 - 17 |
Satellite 2011 [Completed]
Washington, DC
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Organized by Satellite Today
Ecliptic CEO Rex Ridenoure and biz-dev rep Dave Yoel attending
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2011
Feb 28 - Mar 2
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2nd Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference [Completed]
Orlando, FL
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Organized by SwRI; Hosted by Univ. of Central Florida
Ecliptic is a conference co-sponsor; CEO Rex Ridenoure attending
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| 2011 Jan 12 - 14 |
Commercial Human Spaceflight Technical Forum [Completed]
Boulder, CO
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Organized by Special Aerospace Services, LLC
Ecliptic CEO Rex Ridenoure attending
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