home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!gumby!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!fs1.ee.ubc.ca!davem
- From: davem@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Michelson)
- Subject: Re: russian solar sail?+
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.054325.10996@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <2m6RwB2w165w@inqmind.bison.mb.ca> <ewright.726175598@convex.convex.com> <ida.726295295@atomic>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:43:25 GMT
- Lines: 19
-
- In article <ida.726295295@atomic> ida@atomic (David Goldschmidt) writes:
- > There is a race being planned by the World Space Foundation (Federation?)
- >from geosynchronous orbit to the moon. (At least it was planned as of
- >November.) They were hoping to get it off by 1995. As of November they had
- >3 entrants, I think the French, the Japanese, and the WSF itself. The
- >Russians were trying to get together a team.
-
- The World Space Foundation has been around for at least ten years. They're
- based in Pasadena and a substantial fraction of the membership of this
- non-profit organization are JPL employees. Their main (only?) objective is
- to get a solar sail into orbit and prove the concept in practice.
-
- Just in case anyone was wondering.
-
- --
- Dave Michelson
- davem@ee.ubc.ca
-
-
-