LightSail 2 will transmit Morse code from space, and you can make the sound your ringtone

Posted date: June 11, 2016in: NewsNo Comments

During last year’s LightSail 1 mission, dozens of radio enthusiasts around the wrote in to tell usthey heard our solar sailing CubeSat chattering away in low-Earth orbit.

Every few seconds, LightSail automatically transmits a beacon packet. These packets can be picked up by ground stations and decoded into 238 lines of text telemetry t…READ MORE

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