Satellite comes back to life, deploys solar sail on second try | Spaceflight Now
Mission managers say the shoebox-sized LightSail satellite powered up its tiny deployment motor Sunday, and data from the diminutive spacecraft indicate its experimental solar sail unfurled in orbit 220 miles above Earth.
The deployment sequence began at 3:47 p.m. EDT (1947 GMT) off the west coast of Baja California, when LightSail was in radio contact with a ground station in San Luis Obispo, California.
Reentry will be Sunday June 14th, 2015. There is a second launch of another LightSail in 2016 which will be placing the LightSail into a higher orbit in order to do real sailing in the way it was designed to do.
Mission Control LightSail - Mission Control Center | The Planetary Society