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The National Space Society and the Planetary Society requested at least $170,000,000 for NEO Surveyor in 2022-10-01.
The National Space Society and The Planetary Society sent a letter on 2022-06-16 asking House and Senate appropriators to reject the NEO Surveyor funding cut and fully fund the mission.
The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 solar sail demonstration, launched in 2019, used booms to deploy its sail.
NASA’s twin Viking missions each had an orbiter and lander and had an estimated combined cost of $7,100,000,000 in $2,020 according to an analysis by The Planetary Society.
Planetary Society outreach coordinator Andy de Fonseca created a Change.org petition calling for NASA to rename the Stennis Space Center.
The Planetary Society concluded at the end of July 2019 that LightSail 2 changed its orbit using the solar sail.
On 2019-07-31, the Planetary Society raised the orbit of a small satellite using a 32-square-meter solar sail with LightSail 2.
The Planetary Society estimates that the Apollo program cost $288,000,000,000 in $2,019.
The LightSail program cost $7 million, which The Planetary Society raised through donations.
The Planetary Society developed an earlier solar sail mission, Cosmos 1, which failed to reach orbit after its 2005 launch on a Volna rocket.
The Planetary Society planned an international competition to solicit ideas for new projects supporting solar system exploration and technology development after LightSail 2.
The Planetary Society funded the LightSail 2 mission with $7,000,000 raised from donations.
A Planetary Society study estimated that the Lunar Module developed for Apollo cost about $23,400,000,000 to develop in $2,019.
The STP-2 mission manifest includes NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission alongside Air Force and private organization satellites, including the LightSail-2 solar sail demonstrator developed by The Planetary Society.