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Re: russian solar sail?+

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 22:43
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In article <ida.725390192@atomic>, ida@atomic (David Goldschmidt) writes:
> I saw something a few months ago about a Russian plan to test a small solar
> sail from the Mir space station on Dec 10. of this year.  I haven't heard
> anything about it since - does anybody know if it happened?

Now scheduled for February, timing set by the timing of other activities
aboard Mir.
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: russian solar sail?+
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