Re: POL/SCI/EVO/SPACE potpourri

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 23:00:02 MDT


At 01:08 PM 7/20/01 -0700, Robert wrote:

>The Planetary Society has launched its solar sail:
> http://www.planetary.org/
>and
> http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/07/20/solar.sail.launched/index.html

woo-hoo... BUT

it was suborbital only, and

< There has been some speculation that the spacecraft and capsule may not
have separated from the upper stage of the rocket, but this has not been
confirmed by the project team. >

[http://www.planetary.org/html/society/press/launchasplanned.html]

Damien Broderick



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