After the month has passed, the craft will spend another year gradually deorbiting.It's a rare achievement in spaceflight, and notable when LightSail relied partly on crowdfunding to make their project a reality. What's important, though, is what comes next. The Society intends to share data with others so they can implement or refine plans for…
Last week, the LightSail 2 officially made its first contact with Earth. The solar-powered spacecraft will be sailing around Earth’s orbit for the next year, all part of a mission to prove that solar sailing is a viable mode of space exploration.If successful, the hope is that solar sailing could be used in other spacecraft…
Major Windows 10 updates aren’t always smooth sailing. And if you own Microsoft’s Surface Book 2, you’ll probably be a bit annoyed to know that you can’t update to Windows 10 version 1903, the latest iteration of Microsoft’s operating system, thanks to a bug with Nvidia GPUs.To be fair, errors like this are bound to…
A sailing coach pleaded guilty to federal charges related to the cheating and bribery scheme. A rowing coach was fired, but the university won’t say why.ImageStanford spent $182,000 on its sailing program in 2017 — more than any school other than Boston College.CreditCreditJim Wilson/The New York TimesJul 17, 2019REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A Stanford sailor…
Photo: Anders HellbergYouth activist Greta Thunberg is hopping on a carbon-free racing boat to make the United Nations Climate Summit in New York on September 23. The Swedish founder of Fridays for Future—a now-global effort where youth skip school on Fridays to protest in the name of climate change and their future—figured out how to…
