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Solar Panels - lightweight by
Abdul Ahad
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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Wales Fireball Image NOT a Meteor ?!? by
James Oberg
(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...
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Mosquitoes in space by
Paolo Ulivi
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:...
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Cosmic radiation/Solar flare shielding by
G. Stewart
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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Landing a capsule on a huge airbag? by
Vincent Cate
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...
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Nozomi's state? by
Matti Anttila
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...
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October 7th 03 09:04 PM
by PP
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Rascal? by
Richard Stewart
Daarpa's new toy?
http://aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/09223top.xml
Cheers,
Richard
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October 7th 03 06:40 PM
by Len
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A re-entry parachute? by
Allen Meece
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...
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satellite tracking programs by
Joann Evans
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...
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Aluminum and Nitrogen in asteroids by
Larry Gales
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. ...
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RocketCam for second MER launch by
Doug Ellison
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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October 5th 03 05:57 PM
by G.Beat
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Orbital Reentry shield/landing system? by
Ian Woollard
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...
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