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need program or webpage by
Don
Do you know a program to provide real-time look angles to planets?
Don
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SEMPER VIGILES
Ask me no questions, I will tell you no...
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CONTOUR accident report? by
Alex R. Blackwell
Allen Thomson wrote:
Anybody know when it's going to come out, or has it already?
No, the CONTOUR Mission Investigation Team results still have not...
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Columbia - Cooling the Breach by
Craig Fink
Specific heat of water = 1.0 BTU/lbs/F
Latent heat of fusion of water = 140. BTU/lbs
Latent heat of evaporation of water = 970. BTU/lbs
Initial water...
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Spacecraft weblog by
Chris
This is a shameless plug for my relatively new weblog focusing on
Spacecraft Design, Dynamics, and Control, with occasional posts about
motorcycling, beer,...
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by Chris
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Bamboo in space? by
Jim McCauley
Bamboo is light and strong, and it grows well in poor soils and under
marginal sunlight. I wonder if it could grow in microgravity? If so, and
its structural...
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Best asteroids to colonize? by
Hop David
Some of the criteria I'm using:
Low inclination
Perihelion near 1 A.U.
Close to earth resonant orbits (good launch opportunities should reoccur
on a regular...
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feedback on orbiter concept? by
Penguinista
http://splitreflection.com/cal/shuttle.png
A simple shuttle orbiter concept I've drawn up based on certain princibles.
- This would be an upper stage, though...
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Can NASA Perform the Following Today? by
Um Zutu
Would NASA be able to perform the following today?:
Send a manned orbiter into space then land them (by rocket descent, parachute,
air-cushion or whatever...
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The Apollo moon landing missons? by
Christopher
Did the have to do a retro burn to slow down into lunar orbit? I
don't seem to remember any of the missions having done so.
i.e. as you climb out of a...
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How big is L5? by
Henry Spencer
In article ,
Alex Terrell wrote:
The Earth Moon L5 (or L4) position is often mentioned...
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HTO rocket concept by
Joann Evans
Doug Goncz wrote:
For an HTOL space plane with a reentry body generating some lift, and
necessarily equipped with wheels for HL, can the HTO under rocket...
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n2o, ethane, co2 ethene mixtures by
Penguinista
toby peers wrote:
Sometimes people on this group have mentioned mixed liquid monprops
like methane and oxygen and that they are very dangerous. What
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planet schmanet, it's probably a brown dwarf! by
Christopher M. Jones
I think this new "planet" detected in a 13 billion year old
star system is most likely really a brown dwarf. Ahh, but
you say that 2.5 MJup. is too low to be...
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Fast, reliable, cheap vs CATS by
brianwh
Of course this is why the Russians have done so well with space. They
could generally get away with less reliable systems and just try a few
extra...
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Sapceship One flies! by
David Troup
With EAA and other things going on, I missed the first flight (glide)
of Spaceship One! Check out scaled.com for in-flight photos, etc.
Congrats to the Scaled...
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Has this jet/rocket concept got a name? by
toby peers
hi,
A pressure jet has venturis which use the energy in expanding propane to
entrain air into a combustion chamber.
a)
What about using the expanding propane...
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Rocketeer for real ? by
Kaido Kert
Ok, i guess everybody saw the daredevil austrian Felix Baumgarten skydive
across the la Manche the other day. If not, here's Reuters online video
story about...
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Mission to Alpha Centauri by
Roger Stokes
I did a few calculations on what it might take to do a flyby of Alpha
Centauri, so, like a fool, I propose to rush in (to this newsgroup) where
angels fear to...
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August 8th 03 07:36 AM
by Jim
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