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Planetary Society Hoping To Launch Another Solar Sail By End Of '06
Aerospace Daily & Defense Report ^
| 07/25/05
| Jefferson Morris
Posted on 07/25/2005 6:12:01 PM PDT by KevinDavis
While still trying to sort out precisely what happened to its Cosmos-1 solar sail spacecraft, the Planetary Society hopes to be able to build and launch another solar sail by the end of next year, according to Director Louis Friedman.
"We're going to make plans to try and do Cosmos-1 again and to have another attempt at flying the first solar sail mission," Friedman told The DAILY. "We have a lot of ground spares and we could probably build a spacecraft fairly quickly ... maybe in a year."
Cosmos-1 was lost June 21 when its Volna rocket failed shortly after liftoff from a submerged Russian submarine in the Barents Sea. In 2001 a suborbital solar sail test spacecraft built by the society also was lost in a Volna mishap.
(Excerpt) Read more at aviationnow.ecnext.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cosmos1; solarsail; space
One word of advise: DON'T LET RUSSIA LAUNCH THE SHIP!!!!!!!!
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; ...
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posted on
07/25/2005 6:12:35 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles, the earth/past to the groundhogs)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
07/25/2005 6:14:30 PM PDT
by
datura
(Molon Labe)
To: KevinDavis
As Scotty might have said: The rocket Volna' reach orbit...
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posted on
07/25/2005 6:22:26 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Or maybe Chekov)
To: KevinDavis
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
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posted on
07/25/2005 6:33:12 PM PDT
by
EsmeraldaA
(That witch does not kill me, makes me stronger (NIETZSCHE))
To: EsmeraldaA; All
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posted on
07/25/2005 6:33:51 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles, the earth/past to the groundhogs)
To: KevinDavis
Especially from one of their subs
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posted on
07/25/2005 6:55:14 PM PDT
by
conservativewasp
(Liberals lie for sport and hate their country.)
To: conservativewasp; All
They should ask SpaceX to launch the Solar Sail...
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posted on
07/25/2005 6:56:41 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles, the earth/past to the groundhogs)
To: KevinDavis; datura; mikrofon; EsmeraldaA; conservativewasp; boris
One word of advise: DON'T LET RUSSIA LAUNCH THE SHIP!!!!!!!!However, the Russians make great rocket engines such as the RD-180.
The RD-0120 was an interesting design as well. (now mothballed)
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posted on
07/26/2005 12:35:25 AM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: RadioAstronomer
"The RD-0120 was an interesting design as well. (now mothballed)" It was a carbon-copy of the SSME.
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posted on
07/26/2005 6:50:21 AM PDT
by
boris
(The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a leftist with a word processor.)
To: KevinDavis
"They should ask SpaceX to launch the Solar Sail" Perhaps Orbital Sciences might be the more (ahem) prudent choice.
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posted on
07/26/2005 6:51:22 AM PDT
by
boris
(The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a leftist with a word processor.)
To: boris
I think it was the other way around, however, I will need to do a bit of research tonight.
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posted on
07/26/2005 7:55:09 AM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: RadioAstronomer
OHH you misunderstand me (or my smiley), I don't think they are all stupid.
It's just that they used to have all this countries under their thumb,and now don't. So you see, the access to facilities and resources was severed . Not to mention their scientists!
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posted on
07/26/2005 10:53:53 AM PDT
by
EsmeraldaA
(That witch does not kill me, makes me stronger (NIETZSCHE))
To: RadioAstronomer; KevinDavis
Anyhooo my smiley stands!
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posted on
07/26/2005 11:08:28 AM PDT
by
EsmeraldaA
(That witch does not kill me, makes me stronger (NIETZSCHE))
To: EsmeraldaA
OHH you misunderstand me (or my smiley), I don't think they are all stupid.Noooo... I knew you were not saying that. :-)
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posted on
07/26/2005 10:26:04 PM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: EsmeraldaA
:-) (you smily is better than mine) LOL!
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posted on
07/26/2005 10:26:36 PM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: RadioAstronomer; boris
I think it was the other way aroundNope! I had it backwards in my mind.
"First operational Russian cryogenic engine system, built to the same overall performance specifications as America's SSME"
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posted on
07/26/2005 11:11:31 PM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
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