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Article #7243Re: Solar Sail Race. Was Russian Solar Sailer
From: Dave Michelson
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 16:51
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 16:51
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In article <1993Jan6.041527.1@acad3.alaska.edu> nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes: >IS the solar sail race supposed to be a manned mission or what.. Why must it be >a manned mission? Why not a robot mission.. A race in miniture.. Why not to >test the concept.. After all the race would neewd some form of chase plane to >be there incase of a accident.. So why not a unmanned mission. Unless I missed >the point or mentioned of unmanned. IF I did, forgive my ignorance.. > ALL solar sails are designed to be unmanned. They take too long to get from A to B to even think about putting people aboard. The life support requirements would be horrendous otherwise. -- Dave Michelson davem@ee.ubc.ca
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!darwin.sura.net!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!fs1.ee.ubc.ca!davem From: davem@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Michelson) Subject: Re: Solar Sail Race. Was Russian Solar Sailer Message-ID: <1993Jan6.165110.13353@ee.ubc.ca> Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering References: <1993Jan6.041527.1@acad3.alaska.edu> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:51:10 GMT Lines: 17