Re: Slush Hydrogen question

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From: Josh 'K' Hopkins
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 04:23

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greason@ptdcs2.intel.com (Jeff Greason ~) writes:

>P.S. I still have received no information on the real drive source for
>solar sails.  Help!

A solar sail is just a big sheet of reflective material.  The "drive source"
is the sun - the sail is pushed by radiation pressure from light.

-- 
Josh Hopkins                                          jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

"We can lick gravity, but the paperwork's a bit tougher."  Wernher von Braun

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