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Article #7247Re: Space Questions and more..
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 18:20
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 18:20
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In article <SHAFER.93Jan6083034@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov> shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes:
>> When DCX flys, why not use it as a way to lift a small payload such as the
>> "solar Sail Race" contestants into space? That is if the contestants are
>> unmanned..
>
>Probably because DC-X is only going to 30,000 ft...
In fact, since that's about 10km, and solar sails don't function worth a
damn below about 1000km, we have another member for the what's-a-few-
orders-of-magnitude-between-friends club. :-)
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"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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