Hello Everyone, I've been think about the requirements for the external garment worn with a Mars Surface Spacesuit. Of course a TMG for Mars would be greatly...

Hi, Does anyone (rocket builders perhaps?) know where I can get magnet-bars, preferably plastic coated? Also, I need some carbon plates about 5cm x 2cm x...

On 08 Jul 2003 16:22:04 GMT, (TKalbfus) wrote: How about burrowing into a captures asteroid or comet, the low point of whose orbit comes...

On Channel 5 here in England last night was a program called 'moving to Mars'. In the early part of the program was a brief section of a team at NASA who were...

With Mars as the current flavour of the month, I have been looking via google around sites concerned with the design of the Mars eva suit for when we...

In several experiments conducted by NASA and by the Russians plants were grown indoors using an artificial light. What type of light was used that produces...

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

Liquid propellant rocket engines have the engine on a gimbals frame so servo motors can move the exhaust a few degrees in the X and Y axis so the rocket can be...

Over the weekend I was reading some sites associated with our British Interplanetary Societys Project Dedalus. It seems to be for the moment the only...

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...

Does the amount of heat in the exhaust have any bearing on the isp and amount of thrust the engine produces? i.e. the heat produced by the SSME is only a few...

I know that the plasma halo cause by atmospheric friction cuts out radio contact from a returning space craft i.e. the Shuttle, Apollo Comand module,...

"Roger Stokes" wrote: I have read ideas of air-launched rockets gaining about 300m/s, but how about a rocket mounted on a maglev...

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...

Thanks for the rotor answers, appreciated. Here's another handful questions for you all. I've been reading articles on the web about the new liquid...

Hi all, just popped in to this group, as I've heard its a good place for space questions answers. My question is this: You have a rotor 200 meters in...

I have been recomended the book "Rocket Propulsion Elements" by Bruce Sutton" by the poster Damon Hill, and it is now on order from Amazon. I noticed a few...

I recall reading on the Cassini website that Huygens has a camera on it. Will this be used to send images back to Cassini and then Earth? I've also heard...

A while ago I saw an idea for an "Airship To Space" on JP Aerospace's website. How does this work? They mentioned using electric rockets which have very...

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 00:45:13 +0000, MattWriter wrote: I saw a pic today of the Eagle from the old Space: 1999 TV series. While the series' premise was...