{"id":19643,"date":"2015-05-30T20:07:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T12:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lightsail-spacecraft-reboots-in-orbit-its-alive-says-bill-nye\/"},"modified":"2015-05-30T20:07:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T12:07:57","slug":"lightsail-spacecraft-reboots-in-orbit-its-alive-says-bill-nye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lightsail-spacecraft-reboots-in-orbit-its-alive-says-bill-nye\/","title":{"rendered":"LightSail spacecraft reboots in orbit: \u2018It\u2019s alive!\u2019 says Bill Nye"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_178048\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178048\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-178048\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bill-Nye-620x678.jpg\" alt=\"Photo via Kickstarter\/LightSail\/Bill Nye\" width=\"292\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bill-Nye-620x678.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bill-Nye-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bill-Nye-200x219.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bill-Nye-92x100.jpg 92w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bill-Nye.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-178048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via Kickstarter\/LightSail\/Bill Nye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Planetary Society\u2019s LightSail spacecraft has rebooted and resumed communications with its team on Earth after a software glitch threatened the mission of the light-catching sail.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s&nbsp;the official&nbsp;statement from Bill Nye, the Planetary Society\u2019s CEO:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOur LightSail called home! It\u2019s alive! Our LightSail spacecraft has rebooted itself, just as our engineers predicted. Everyone is delighted. We were ready for three more weeks of anxiety. In this meantime, the team has coded a software patch ready to upload. After we are confident in the data packets regarding our orbit, we will make decisions about uploading the patch and deploying our sails\u2014 and we\u2019ll make those decisions very soon. This has been a rollercoaster for us down here on Earth, all the while our capable little spacecraft has been on orbit going about its business. In the coming two days, we will have more news, and I am hopeful now that it will be very good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>LightSail launched on May 20 aboard United Launch Alliance\u2019s <em>Atlas V<\/em> rocket at Cape Canaveral in Florida. This is the first stage&nbsp;in a larger mission that aims&nbsp;to prove that a small satellite can be powered by the sun on a journey&nbsp;into space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo via Kickstarter\/LightSail\/Bill Nye The Planetary Society\u2019s LightSail spacecraft has rebooted and resumed communications with its team on Earth after a software glitch threatened the mission of the light-catching sail. Here\u2019s&nbsp;the official&nbsp;statement from Bill Nye, the Planetary Society\u2019s CEO: \u201cOur LightSail called home! It\u2019s alive! Our LightSail spacecraft has rebooted itself, just as our engineers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4030],"class_list":["post-19643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bill-nye"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}