TEHRAN, Jul 23 -LightSail 2, a CubeSat developed by the Planetary Society, is preparing to deploy its solar sails. The miniature satellite, roughly the size of a toaster, will unfurl its sails at approximately 8:22 a.m. ET on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Mar 09 - "The biggest challenge was trying to get the timing correct to make sure we could get these images ," said Heather Maliska, AirBOS sub-project manager.
TEHRAN, July 18 -The Very Large Telescope has achieved first light using its new optics technique called laser tomography. Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory used the new technology to image Neptune in an unprecedented detail.