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Solar sailing in the early days, and Carl Wiley
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http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/science_fiction.html indicates that "Russell Saunders" was an engineer named Carl Wiley. The article was "Clipper Ships of Space," in the May 1951 issue of Astounding. Apparently the same Carl Wiley of Goodyear Aircraft Corporation (currently Lockheed Martin Arizona located in Goodyear, AZ) was also an originator of the synthetic aperture radar concept at about the same time he wrote his pseudonymous solar sail piece for Astounding. Sounds like an interesting guy -- if anyone knows more about him, please let us know. Goodyear map: http://az-goodyear.civicplus.com/doc...tail%20Map.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------- SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2005, Issue No. 58 June 22, 2005 AN ENCOMIUM ON SOLAR SAILING (RESTRICTED) Cosmos 1, an innovative solar sailing spacecraft that would use solar radiation for propulsion, reportedly suffered a launch failure today. Cosmos 1 was sponsored by Cosmos Studios and supported by The Planetary Society. But solar sailing is "extremely promising," according to a "restricted access" report prepared at Los Alamos in 1973. The technology would enable "travel essentially at will throughout the solar system, achieving quite reasonable flight times for a broad category of interesting interplanetary missions." The "restricted" Los Alamos report, by Theodore P. Cotter, expanded upon two earlier sources: a 1958 paper by Richard L. Garwin in the journal Jet Propulsion, and a 1951 article by the pseudonymous Russell Saunders in Astounding Science Fiction. The concepts independently described by those two previous writers, the Los Alamos author wrote, "are physically sound, quantitatively correct and extremely promising." Today, access to the 1973 Cotter paper is "restricted to selected government agencies," states the web site of the Los Alamos National Laboratory research library. It is one of many thousands of unclassified technical papers that were removed from online public access in the post-9/11 clampdown on public information. A copy is nevertheless available from the Federation of American Scientists. See "An Encomium on Solar Sailing" by T.P. Cotter, Report No. LA-5231-MS, May 1973, 8 pp.: http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/...1/00390190.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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