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Article #6834Re: 2001/2010 Rocket Engines - What are they?
From: Ed McCreary
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:07
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:07
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>>>>> On Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:02:47 GMT, MLINDROOS@FINABO.ABO.FI (Marcus Lindroos INF) said: MLI> Any idea what kind of engines the "Discovery" and "Alexei Leonov" of "2010 - MLI> Odyssey Two" were using? Obviously, they have to be pretty fuel-efficient [=an MLI> exhaust velocity of at least 25km/s] since neither craft seems to have much Hmm, It's been a while since I read 2001, although I saw the movie this weekend, so I don't remember if they went into any details. I do know that 2010 does have a blurb on the Leonov's engines. You may want to grab a paperback and check it out. My failing memory tells me it used some sort of "low" temp muon catalyzed fusion. I think Luis Alvarez was supposed to have done the theoretical work for it. (In the book, that is, although Clarke derived some details from Alvarez's actual work) -- Ed McCreary ,__o edm@gocart.eng.hou.compaq.com _-\_<, "If it were not for laughter, there would be no Tao." (*)/'(*)
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wotan.compaq.com!twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com!twisto!edm From: edm@gocart.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) Subject: Re: 2001/2010 Rocket Engines - What are they? In-Reply-To: MLINDROOS@FINABO.ABO.FI's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12: 02:47 GMT Message-ID: <EDM.93Jan21100739@gocart.eng.hou.compaq.com> Sender: news@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com (Netnews Account) Organization: Compaq Computer Corp References: <1993Jan21.102943.5124@abo.fi> <1993Jan21.120247.11867@abo.fi> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:07:39 GMT Lines: 18