Mission accomplished: the Planetary Society announced Wednesday that its LightSail 2 spacecraft, which was launched last month, had successfully raised its orbit using only the power of photons from the Sun.
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Source:
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-flight-mission-lightsail.html