Recently I was reading that the reason mosquitoes always land head-up on the walls is that they use gravity to help their digestion. What I was wandering is:...

What are the current status of robot races? Saw on the TV the one in what Nevada/Arizona, to have a unmanned ground vehicle, go some 150 miles unassisted? They...

The recent issue of AviationWeek features Pulse Detonation Engines, including one being showcased at Oshkosh by the Air Force...

Richard Schumacher wrote in message ... I was about to write "cruise missle", but hell: why...

Kelly McDonald writes: I've been hearing a lot about them in the past few week. There seems to be talk...

Nanotech accelerometers are showing up which offer relatively cheap, mass-producible devices (to the point that laptops may be able to safe the heads before...

Here is an article on the subject. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/physics-04w.html Almost sounds too good to be possible. Any comments ?

What if (for the sake of discussion) there were a follow up to the Huygens mission in the works. What, given what we've learned so far, would we want on the...

Is is possible to make it into earth orbit using a sub-G thrusting rocket motor together with a hypersonic lifting body? Assuming it is possible Newtonically,...

shuttle C dreaming http://www.slepsummit.com/IIStrategy.pdf Read down to page 17 through 20 and you can see shuttle c dreaming again. The best option for...

Until some nuclear-powered system of propulsion which does not involve mass ejection is invented, then Man is limited to making the occasional flea-hop into...

Why is it that spacecraft tend to adopt nose-down attitudes for de-orbit burns? If the acceleration vector were instead precisely anti-parallel to...

What is the range of laser detection and range? Can it track Voyager? -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News...

Is the RL60 a 'done deal' for some variants of the Delta 4 and Atlas 5? If so what effects will it have on payloads - presumably to GTO but also on...

The recent post regarding os say it is Flight Linux. Are the spacecraft systems computer programs written in C? Christopher +++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Kites...

I added the ability to simulate a charged particle moving in the Earth's magnetic field to my simulator. This lets you look at the motion of particles in the...

(MattWriter) : Any spacecraft designed to return to Earth under control (as opposed to ballistic reentry) has to carry a substantial...

Funny thing is that Werner Von Brown was the one who proposed this ion engine more than 50 years ago. What was it with these Germans -- Einstein and Von Brown....

Research baloons have flown at 51km above sea level, and yet the sputnik 1 flew at 31km. 20 km below where the highest baloon can fly would yield enough...

I am wondering how to find the pull of Mar's gravity at the Martian Moon's orbits. The pull of Phobos' own gravity varies between 8.4-1.9 mm/s²...