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Solar sails next appearence?
This appears to be the next solar sail event after the Japanese trials
earlier this year. From the BBC, at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3999293.stm: quote Solar sail craft gets launch date The spacecraft uses photons from the Sun to propel it The world's first spacecraft to use a solar sail for propulsion is set to be launched from a submerged Russian submarine on 1 March next year. Cosmos-1 has been built by space advocacy group The Planetary Society and will deploy eight triangular sail blades once it is in space. [...] /quote /dps |
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So anybody heard what the 'Star of Tolerance' is getting up to?
Interesting. I hadn't heard this since the 1996-ish variant: http://www.darksky.org/newsltrs/20-29/nl25.html#star http://www.aas.org/~light/pollution_star_4.html But the new (2001) one appears to have a solar sail too: http://www.planetaryvision.net/FoundingAlliance.html which links to http://www.staroftolerance.org/ (which I didn't look at). Here's an astronomer complaining about it: http://harvee.org/pipermail/nelpag/2001/000147.html I'd be pretty surprised if it happens: something like this which is being done for symbolic benefits is particularly vulnerable to controversy. |
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"Jim Kingdon" wrote ...
So anybody heard what the 'Star of Tolerance' is getting up to? [...] which links to http://www.staroftolerance.org/ (which I didn't look at). There hasn't been anything new there since the middle of 2003 or so and the English page disappeared a while back. |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:18:44 -0600, dave schneider
wrote: This appears to be the next solar sail event after the Japanese trials earlier this year. From the BBC, at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3999293.stm: quote Solar sail craft gets launch date The spacecraft uses photons from the Sun to propel it The world's first spacecraft to use a solar sail for propulsion is set to be launched from a submerged Russian submarine on 1 March next year. Cosmos-1 has been built by space advocacy group The Planetary Society and will deploy eight triangular sail blades once it is in space. [...] /quote /dps A quick check of http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/ indicates this date still holds. "Launch Date: *March 1, 2005* Days : Hours : Minutes : Seconds A PROJECT of THE PLANETARY SOCIETY and COSMOS STUDIO" /dps -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ |
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