Hi all! I'm mucking about with an AVR/PIC uC and want to choose a suitable accelerometer (probably from Analog Devices - but please let me know of any...

Mike Swift wrote: NASA working to promote the military, ha ha. They took the DC-X only because it was forced upon them, Not true. Dan Goldin used...

When Pioneer 10 eventually passes Aldebaran - projected to be in around 2 million years time (!), do we know how "close" the flyby is likely to be...not that...

(Henry Spencer) writes: In article , Richard Lamb wrote: A C Clarke described a...

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In article , Joann Evans wrote: Second, even if it did, the crew would have to know or suspect that there was a...

Heinrich Zinndorf-Linker wrote in message ... OK, buy them in Germany, instead. The Germans will...

The DARPA solicitation for the new FALCON small launch vehicle program specifies the requirement to put a satellite in "sun synchronous orbit" at 450 km at "79...

I just got the book "Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion", mostly on the recommendations found in the sci.space.tech archives. I turned to Appendix 2...

Tony Rusi wrote: put the ISS in the inclination as the moon? Yes, (assuming you meant "same inclination") but there would be...

In article , James Wentworth wrote: Didn't Vanguard's first stage use LOX/UDMH? -- Jason No, it was a...

Awhile ago NASA was looking for projects to develop a "self healing skin" for long duration space vehicles. Does anybody know what is happening, or happened to...

(Gordon D. Pusch) wrote in message ... (JimM) writes (in response to...

In article , Christopher wrote: (The archetypal example of big rocket with tiny payload because...

An acceleration jet needs more low velocity thrust to be useful in the boost role than on the high end where the high altitude rocket engines can be expected...

This is the weekly Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) posting for sci.space.tech and sci.space.science . It is crossposted into sci.space.policy to explain...

"Andrew Thompson" wrote: After reading some of the recent discussions re the shuttle loss I began to wonder at the practicality...

On 08 Jul 2003 16:22:04 GMT, (TKalbfus) wrote: How about burrowing into a captures asteroid or comet, the low point of whose orbit comes...

Turbojets historically have been constantly improved in the direction of improved specific fuel consumption (SFC vs Isp for rockets). Thrust to weight has been...

The book J.G.Demjanko, A.S.Koroteyev's , etc. " Nuclear Rocket Engines ", 2001 is published in Russia.. This book is interesting that it data...