The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft sprang loose from its Prox-1 carrier vehicle as planned today, and sent its first signals back to mission control at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in ...

A crowd-funded spacecraft, the LightSail 2, has become the latest to fly on celestial winds. While wind as we know it certainly doesn’t blow in space, the ship can directly harness something ...

It may be "mission accomplished" for the Planetary Society's solar sail experiment, but its privately funded LightSail 2 mission is far from over.

The LightSail 2 has now become the second ever solar sailing object to fly, following the Japanese IKAROS, which launched in 2010.