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2021 Jan 06
Ecliptic is on the Dynetics team providing high-definition video systems and auxiliary/secondary payload control and data management avionics2020 Dec 23
Ecliptic's sequencer avionics will control the ejection of smallsats and CubeSats from three different firms manifested on this launch, leveraging heritage from the 2018 Falcon 9 SSO-A launch where Ecliptic sequencers successfuly controlled 60 of the 64 satellite ejections2020 Nov 13
Ecliptic is on the development team for ExoCam2020 Oct 23
Ecliptic provided context-imaging cameras to support these RRM3 tests and demonstrations
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| 2019 Dec 24 |
Space.com
The Greatest Spaceflight Moments of 2019 The LightSail-2 mission made the list!
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| 2019 Dec 03 |
Popular Science
LightSail 2 is Popular Science's Grand Award Winner for Aerospace The project was named #1 in a field of many for innovations in aerospace for 2019
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| 2019 Nov 21 |
The Planetary Society
The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 Named One of TIME’s 100 Best Inventions of 2019 Ecliptic was lead spacecraft systems contractor for LightSail 2 (and LightSail 1)
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| 2019 Oct 09 |
Space News
NASA Slammed a Rocket Body Into the Moon for Science 10 Years Ago Today Ecliptic-supplied avionics controlled the entire LCROSS science payload (9 instruments, including one from Ecliptic)
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| 2019 Oct 03 |
Space News
Maxar Selects Deployable Space Systems to Build Solar Arrays for Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element The 2017 ROSA demo experiment on the ISS highlighted in the article was entirely controlled by Ecliptic-supplied avionics
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| 2019 Aug 23 |
The Planetary Society
LightSail 2 Marks 1 Month of Solar Sailing Solar sailing in progress!
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| 2019 Aug 23 |
Space News
Spaceflight Herded 64 CubeSats Onto a Single Falcon 9 and Has the Scratch Marks to Prove It Ecliptic-supplied avionics, batteries, transmitters and wire harnesses controlled 60 of the 64 satellite deployments on this launch
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| 2019 Aug 13 |
NASASpaceflight.com
Dextre Completes RRM3 Tasks to Test Robotic Refueling of Spacecraft Ecliptic supplied several RocketCam cameras to provide situational awareness video during the RRM3 operations
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| 2019 Jul 31 |
Space News
Planetary Society Declares Solar Sailing Mission a Success Ecliptic was lead systems contractor for the LightSail program
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| 2019 Jul 31 |
The Planetary Society
LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light Mission success!
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