Search query: Solar sail spacecraft projects
Video title:  going to deploy a very large cell sunlight or light even though it has no Mass has momentum so it can push these things through space really extraordinary idea we'll see if uh we can use a Sun's rays to accelerate us it's cool because it's almost infinite energy so having something such like a big project or a big sale go out in such a small spacecraft gives a lot of opportunity for science on other missions it's teamed with a spacecraft called prox one that's being built by students at Georgia Tech that would demonstrate what they call proximity operations so proximity one would deploy a small object to track to stay in the what what we call station keeping and so we offered light sale one so flight Hardware is usually kept pretty clean so most of the integration work goes on in the clean room in order to go into the clean room we need to dress up we've got coats uh hair covers shoes booties uh gloves and uh so we're going to put all that on before we go inside this is the light sale flight unit um on the outside there's all the solar cells um these generate power for the spacecraft these are Deployable panels that hold the solar cells so everything gets packed into just you know a 3u cube set we're able to pack in the 32 M Square um sail inside as well as the Comm system motor systems batteries Gyros torque rods so Barb what what what do we have here well bench set is us taking all the components from light sale and laying them flat out on this acrylic background for ease of exess it just gives you that uh that perspective about all the components that are actually packaged in the cube set and there's nobody in outer space to push that reset button for example no one that we've gotten uh to volunteer for that job but it's open the day in the life is really supposed to Encompass what a full end to- end test