Lightsail 2’s Successful Deployment Makes it the First Steerable Spacecraft Powered by the Sun

This is a version of the TIME Space newsletter that went out July 26, 2019.

 

Dear readers,

Jeff Kluger is out this week. I’m Alejandro de la Garza, a researcher and reporter at TIME, and a writer on all things technology.

Humanity might have gotten a tiny bit closer to interstellar travel this week, with a very, very small satellite.

That satel…

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