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Article #7205Re: russian solar sail?+
From: Dave Michelson
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 05:43
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 05:43
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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
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!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