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Two solar sails on way next year by
Pat Flannery
One from Japan, one from Interplanetary Society:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/10solarsails/
Is it just me, or does the Japanese one look like the...
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Falcon 9 Heavy vs. Soviet N-1 by
Pat Flannery
Jochem Huhmann wrote:
Additionally the Russians did never test the N-1 first stage prior to
launch, while SpaceX already did a full test for the F-9...
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November 12th 09 12:13 AM
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No Ares 1-Y by
Pat Flannery
Can't be afforded with live J2X...
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Falcon 9 Heavy vs. Soviet N-1 by
Pat Flannery
Brian Thorn wrote:
It almost happened to Saturn V AS-502 also, the bad engine shut down
on its own, fortunately. And Martin-Marietta botched the wiring...
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Falcon 9 Heavy vs. Soviet N-1 by
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Jeff Findley wrote:
And hope the wiring didn't get botched between the controllers and all
those engines, resulting in a good engine being turned off and...
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Falcon 9 Heavy vs. Soviet N-1 by
Pat Flannery
Anthony Frost wrote:
There's also a considerable difference between feeding 30 engines from
a single set of tanks and feeding each group of nine engines...
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Falcon 9 Heavy vs. Soviet N-1 by
Pat Flannery
Dave U. Random wrote:
27 engines vs. 30 engines (First stage)
What are the chances of the Falcon 9 blowing up too?
I'd by concerned about that many...
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Falcon 9 won't launch until February 2010 by
Pat Flannery
Jeff Findley wrote:
Or the crazy Shuttle program, where the first test flight tested all of the
components from ground to orbit and back.
Manned...
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Flexible Path? What? by
Yama
Augustine Commission pretty much recommends in its report what it calls
"Flexible Path" - wide array of potential targets to be visited by manned
spacecraft as...
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November 9th 09 11:55 AM
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