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Jet Powered Parafoil for Airlaunch by
Vincent Cate
A couple years back Pete Lynn (http://www.peterlynnkites.com/)
posted about the idea of using a powered parafoil to airlaunch
a rocket. It seems you can scale...
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China's launching lattitude by
guy-jin
Once upon a time, a scientist came to our school and talked about a
lot of things, one of them being the space program. He said that all
the American space...
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Simulating Solar Sailing by
Vincent Cate
I have added the ability to simulate solar sails to my simulator.
A solar sail is an interesting way to reboost a hanging tether
at GEO.
If anyone can point...
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earth launched buried orion by
Parallax
I know this isnt original so if you have any references to a study
similar to it, please let me know.
Dig a vertical hole several thousand feet deep in a high...
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Dynamics of binary asteroids by
Patrick Underwood
Today the news is that the rediscovered Hermes asteroid may be a
binary of roughly equal masses.
Makes me wonder if there is some way to exploit the energy of...
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Gelling of Oxidizers by
Bruno Berger
Hi Group
quite a lot of effort has been made to gel liquid rocket fuels. On the
oxidizer side I only know about gelling nitric acids. What has been used
for...
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A Space Elevator for Real? by
Kip Ingram
I saw a report on space.com recently describing what appear to be real
consideration of a space elevator, using carbon nanotube technology to get
enough...
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Chinese module at ISS? by
Explorer8939
What are the requirements for a Chinese module, using APAS as a
docking adaptor, to be connected to ISS? Presumably, this module would
be allowed if the...
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How many people to launch a rocket? by
MattWriter
I suppose this is harder to figure out the larger and more complex any launch
campaign gets, but if you take one of the smaller LEO-capable boosters
(Taurus,...
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Contour accident report? by
Brian Gaff
I just read the pdf version which has the real interesting stuff taken out
(Why for goodness sake?) and one gets the impression that once again, the
main...
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Sobering Thot by
Michael J Wise
There are precisely two nations on Earth right now that can put a man
into space, at least on "Short Notice".
And the United States of America is NOT one of...
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A small, polar-orbiting moon by
Bill Bogen
I'd like input from all you orbital mechanics out there as to this
concept's feasibility:
What if sometime in prehistory, the Earth had captured a Near...
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