Can someone recommend me a source where I can buy thin, light-weight solar panels in various sizes? The vast majority of 'consumer' solar battery chargers and...

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(1) JUST A SMOKESCREEN: 'METEOR' PIC WHICH FOOLED NASA The Sun, 7 October 2003 http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003461335,00.html By PAUL...

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:...

Today, NASA issued the long anticipated Announcement of Opportunity for the New Frontiers Program 2003 and Missions of Opportunity....

How much shielding is necessary to protect electronics etc. from permanent damage from the particle flux of solar flares? Or, for that matter, from cosmic...

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http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/news/LGS_AO.html KECK OBSERVATORY REACHES MAJOR MILESTONE ON ROAD TO EXPAND ADAPTIVE OPTICS Keck Observatory News Release October...

When a stuntman jumps off of a build, he lands on a large airbag. The idea of having a reusable capsule land on a huge airbag seems interesting. If the...

What is the state of Nozomi now? There is little or nothing information available on any English language Japanese web sites, and all information is pretty...

Daarpa's new toy? http://aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/09223top.xml Cheers, Richard

Apparantly the Russians are testing a reentry parachute and it makes me wonder, is exotic high tech heat-shielding really necessary for reentry? We all know...

PaulKTM wrote: What does everyone use for satellite tracking software? I personally use STS Plus and Traksat. (MS-DOS versions of both, though there is a...

I am very much a fan of O'Neill colonies, but have long believed they would be much easier if they were close to a carbonaceous asteroid rather than the moon. ...

Spotted an excellent animated gif of the third stage sep and ignition of the second MER launch on the APOD site a few days ago. It mentions that not only this...

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I was thinking about the possibilities of building a water cooled reentry shield. Back in the 50s or 60s there was a test where they reentered a solid sphere...

Check out Scaled.com for details about the second flight of Space Ship One and it's successful flight test feathering the flight surfaces for a test of the...

Dolores Beasley Headquarters, Washington October 1, 2003 (Phone: 202/358-1753) Joshua Chamot National Science Foundation, Arlington,...