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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: russian solar sail?+
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:26:38 GMT
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- In <2m6RwB2w165w@inqmind.bison.mb.ca> victor@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (Victor Laking) writes:
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- >Actually, using a solar sail to just go to the moon would be pointless as
- >they are only practical over a distance.
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- Using an airplane to go from one one sandhill at Kitty Hawk to another
- was rather pointless, too, wasn't it? The proposal was more a proof of
- concept than a scientific mission.
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- >Remember, they use the solar winds to carry them.
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- Most solar-sail designs use light pressure rather than the solar
- wind.
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