It successfully transited the distance to Venus in about six months , and JAXA ground controllers were able to wake it up from hibernation and download its data four times over the next five years .
Then in 2019 , the non-profit Planetary Society successfully launched LightSail2 , which is towing a three-unit cubesat in Earth orbit . It is expected to fall out of orbit sometime this fall or winter , and burn up in the atmosphere .
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