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A Last Visit With LightSail 2 at the Cubesat Developers Workshop

Published: May 15, 2019, 3 p.m.

b'Mat Kaplan visits Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for a last, clean room visit with LightSail 2, the Planetary Society\\u2019s solar sailing cubesat.\\xa0 While there, Mat also talked to attendees at the Cubesat Developers Workshop, including the creator of the tiny \\u201cPocket Rocket\\u201d engine for small spacecraft. LightSail2 is now at the Air Force Research Lab for launch preparation, as we hear from Bruce Betts in this week\\u2019s What\\u2019s Up. You can learn more about this week\\u2019s guests and topics at:\\xa0 http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/0515-2019-2019-lightsail2-cubesat-developers.html\\xa0Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'