The Planetary Society's brief, yet successful LightSail mission came to a fiery end on Sunday. The non-profit Society announced today that after 25 days in orbit, the CubeSat designed to test a solar sail propulsion system burned up after reentering the Earth’s atmosphere somewhere over the South Atlantic.
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