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"Enkidu the Atheist" |
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21 Jun 2005 03:28:45 PM |
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OT:Private space group launches solar sail orbiter |
Private space group launches solar sail orbiter
Tue Jun 21, 2005 09:05 PM BST
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PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - A privately funded and experimental
spacecraft blasted off on Tuesday from a Russian submarine in a venture
funded by space enthusiasts who see their solar-driven orbiter as a way
to reinvigorate a race to the stars.
Cosmos 1, the world's first solar sail spacecraft, launched in the tip of
a converted Russian intercontinental ballistic missile from the Barents
Sea for the start of a mission that cost just $4 million.
Its Planetary Society sponsors hope the craft, which will deploy a petal-
shaped solar sail to power its planned orbit around Earth, will show that
sunlight could power interplanetary space travel.
Mission operations personnel monitoring the spacecraft from the Planetary
Society's three-story bungalow in Pasadena got word from mission
operations in Moscow of the rocket's take off just after 12:45 p.m. PDT
(1945 GMT)
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Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplin and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
"Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could
prevent girls from being girls."
* Sir Anthony Hope-Hawkins
(02/09/1863 - 07/08/1933)
English writer
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| User: "The other Donald" |
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| Title: Re: OT:Private space group launches solar sail orbiter |
21 Jun 2005 04:58:15 PM |
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"Enkidu the Atheist" <Enkidu.the.Atheist@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns967C891EB801255229@130.133.1.4...
Private space group launches solar sail orbiter
Tue Jun 21, 2005 09:05 PM BST
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PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - A privately funded and experimental
spacecraft blasted off on Tuesday from a Russian submarine in a venture
funded by space enthusiasts who see their solar-driven orbiter as a way
to reinvigorate a race to the stars.
Something I've wondered about this "sail" that maybe one of the people
around here could answer:
How does it work? Do the sails rely on solar winds? ...light photons?
....heat? What?
I've seen Xenon powered spacecraft; a prototype that had a laser fired into
it's lower body with the 'explosion' propelling it up; the usual chemical
based engines, etc.
What is the operating principle of this sail?
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-Donald in Austin
AA #2104
Apatriot #22
Atheist FF/EMT
.....and ordained minister
Stork pin recipient: May 1, 2003 -Madelyn
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| User: "quibbler" |
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| Title: Re: OT:Private space group launches solar sail orbiter |
21 Jun 2005 06:01:06 PM |
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In article <X30ue.48318$j51.33491@tornado.texas.rr.com>, the_donald_
13@yahooX.com says...
"Enkidu the Atheist" <Enkidu.the.Atheist@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns967C891EB801255229@130.133.1.4...
Private space group launches solar sail orbiter
Tue Jun 21, 2005 09:05 PM BST
Printer Friendly | Email Article | RSS
PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - A privately funded and experimental
spacecraft blasted off on Tuesday from a Russian submarine in a venture
funded by space enthusiasts who see their solar-driven orbiter as a way
to reinvigorate a race to the stars.
Something I've wondered about this "sail" that maybe one of the people
around here could answer:
How does it work? Do the sails rely on solar winds? ...light photons?
Well, technically, it can gain momentum from "solar winds", but that
amount of force is miniscule compared to the light pressure exerted
by solar photons.
--
"Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been
able to move real mountains ... But it can put
mountains where there are none." -- Nietzsche
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| User: "The other Donald" |
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| Title: Re: OT:Private space group launches solar sail orbiter |
21 Jun 2005 06:05:04 PM |
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"quibbler" <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d224a1b9cf71a789896af@news.readfreenews.net...
In article <X30ue.48318$j51.33491@tornado.texas.rr.com>, the_donald_
13@yahooX.com says...
"Enkidu the Atheist" <Enkidu.the.Atheist@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns967C891EB801255229@130.133.1.4...
Private space group launches solar sail orbiter
Tue Jun 21, 2005 09:05 PM BST
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PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - A privately funded and experimental
spacecraft blasted off on Tuesday from a Russian submarine in a
venture
funded by space enthusiasts who see their solar-driven orbiter as a
way
to reinvigorate a race to the stars.
Something I've wondered about this "sail" that maybe one of the people
around here could answer:
How does it work? Do the sails rely on solar winds? ...light photons?
Well, technically, it can gain momentum from "solar winds", but that
amount of force is miniscule compared to the light pressure exerted
by solar photons.
Thanks!!
-Donald
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: OT:Private space group launches solar sail orbiter |
22 Jun 2005 02:17:11 PM |
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Enkidu the Atheist <Enkidu.the.Atheist@gmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns967C891EB801255229@130.133.1.4:
Private space group launches solar sail orbiter
Tue Jun 21, 2005 09:05 PM BST
Printer Friendly | Email Article | RSS
PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - A privately funded and experimental
spacecraft blasted off on Tuesday from a Russian submarine in a
venture funded by space enthusiasts who see their solar-driven orbiter
as a way to reinvigorate a race to the stars.
But where did it go ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4110912.stm
--
Jez, MBA.,
Country Dancing and Advanced Astrology, UBS.
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: OT:Private space group launches solar sail orbiter |
22 Jun 2005 02:02:44 AM |
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In article <Xns967C891EB801255229@130.133.1.4>,
Enkidu the Atheist <Enkidu.the.Atheist@gmail.com> wrote:
Private space group launches solar sail orbiter
Tue Jun 21, 2005 09:05 PM BST
Printer Friendly | Email Article | RSS
PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - A privately funded and experimental
spacecraft blasted off on Tuesday from a Russian submarine in a venture
funded by space enthusiasts who see their solar-driven orbiter as a way
to reinvigorate a race to the stars.
Cosmos 1, the world's first solar sail spacecraft, launched in the tip of
a converted Russian intercontinental ballistic missile from the Barents
Sea for the start of a mission that cost just $4 million.
Its Planetary Society sponsors hope the craft, which will deploy a petal-
shaped solar sail to power its planned orbit around Earth, will show that
sunlight could power interplanetary space travel.
Mission operations personnel monitoring the spacecraft from the Planetary
Society's three-story bungalow in Pasadena got word from mission
operations in Moscow of the rocket's take off just after 12:45 p.m. PDT
(1945 GMT)
Sail, ho!
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: OT:Private space group launches solar sail orbiter |
23 Jun 2005 01:21:56 AM |
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In article <jhachm-872C00.00024422062005@news.giganews.com>,
johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote:
In article <Xns967C891EB801255229@130.133.1.4>,
Enkidu the Atheist <Enkidu.the.Atheist@gmail.com> wrote:
Private space group launches solar sail orbiter
Tue Jun 21, 2005 09:05 PM BST
Printer Friendly | Email Article | RSS
PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - A privately funded and experimental
spacecraft blasted off on Tuesday from a Russian submarine in a venture
funded by space enthusiasts who see their solar-driven orbiter as a way
to reinvigorate a race to the stars.
Cosmos 1, the world's first solar sail spacecraft, launched in the tip of
a converted Russian intercontinental ballistic missile from the Barents
Sea for the start of a mission that cost just $4 million.
Its Planetary Society sponsors hope the craft, which will deploy a petal-
shaped solar sail to power its planned orbit around Earth, will show that
sunlight could power interplanetary space travel.
Mission operations personnel monitoring the spacecraft from the Planetary
Society's three-story bungalow in Pasadena got word from mission
operations in Moscow of the rocket's take off just after 12:45 p.m. PDT
(1945 GMT)
Sail, ho!
Sail crash! Damn!
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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