{"id":8078,"date":"2019-07-02T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/07\/02\/lightsail-2-solar-sailing-cubesat-with-a-beacon-on-the-70cm-band\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:00:55","slug":"lightsail-2-solar-sailing-cubesat-with-a-beacon-on-the-70cm-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/07\/02\/lightsail-2-solar-sailing-cubesat-with-a-beacon-on-the-70cm-band\/","title":{"rendered":"LightSail 2 &#8212; Solar Sailing Cubesat with a Beacon on the 70cm Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-OmGvycgNCg\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe>  <\/p>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"> <b>Once deployed, LightSail 2 will automatically transmit a beacon packet every few seconds, which can be decoded into 238 lines of text telemetry describing the spacecraft&#8217;s health and status, including everything from battery status to solar sail deployment motor state. Every 45 seconds, the spacecraft will transmit &#8220;LS2&#8221; on the spacecraft&#8217;s frequency of 437.025 MHz, within the Amateur Radio 70-centimeter band.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"> <b>Further details can be found online at,<\/b><br \/> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/explore\/projects\/lightsail-solar-sailing\/\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/explore\/projects\/lightsail-solar-sailing\/<\/a> <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LightSAil2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"426\" data-original-width=\"788\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LightSAil2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LS2MorseBeacon.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"203\" data-original-width=\"782\" height=\"103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LS2MorseBeacon.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once deployed, LightSail 2 will automatically transmit a beacon packet every few seconds, which can be decoded into 238 lines of text telemetry describing the spacecraft&#8217;s health and status, including everything from battery status to solar sail deployment motor state. Every 45 seconds, the spacecraft will transmit &#8220;LS2&#8221; on the spacecraft&#8217;s frequency of 437.025 MHz, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/07\/02\/lightsail-2-solar-sailing-cubesat-with-a-beacon-on-the-70cm-band\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LightSail 2 &#8212; Solar Sailing Cubesat with a Beacon on the 70cm Band&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8081,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions\/8081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}