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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Hello and finless tec
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 19:47:52 GMT
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- In article <1345@taniwha.UUCP> paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) writes:
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- >OK - here's how you do it, you use one motor, you tie it to the spin-table
- >like a catherine-wheel - when you ignite it it spins up the WESTAR which then
- >flies off the table - not having a motor to ignite it gets mission points
- >by failing from then on :-)
-
- OK.. so what was the story behind the real Westar? Was it a rocket
- launched off a spinning pad, or was it a satellite released off of
- spinning platform? Why did it fail?
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