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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Space Questions and more..
- Message-ID: <C0G2ys.FnA@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:20:51 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.042912.1@acad3.alaska.edu> <SHAFER.93Jan6083034@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <SHAFER.93Jan6083034@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov> shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes:
- >> When DCX flys, why not use it as a way to lift a small payload such as the
- >> "solar Sail Race" contestants into space? That is if the contestants are
- >> unmanned..
- >
- >Probably because DC-X is only going to 30,000 ft...
-
- In fact, since that's about 10km, and solar sails don't function worth a
- damn below about 1000km, we have another member for the what's-a-few-
- orders-of-magnitude-between-friends club. :-)
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- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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