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European Moon mission set for blast off (Update)
New Scientist ^
| 09/26/03
| Will Knight
Posted on 09/26/2003 8:51:12 AM PDT by bedolido
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posted on
09/26/2003 8:51:13 AM PDT
by
bedolido
To: bedolido
Fifteen months?
The thing must be propelled by solar winds....
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posted on
09/26/2003 8:55:56 AM PDT
by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
To: azhenfud
Thats the beauty of this thing.
It is powered by a tiny ion engine, making it quite cost effective.
If successful, scientists see in the future a whole bevy of coffee can sized experiments going off to all corners of the galaxy, and reporting back what they discover.
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posted on
09/26/2003 9:06:39 AM PDT
by
Lokibob
To: azhenfud
No, it's propelled by blue darts, I mean, jets. Didn't you read the article?:) The astronauts must have a great deal of French food and German beer on board.
To: Lokibob
yes, and reporting it back to their great,great, great grandchildren. We did this a decade ago. The future is in nuclear power sources (possibly with a ion drive.
To: bedolido
Been there Done that
To: bedolido
ten dollars it fails just like everything European.
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posted on
09/26/2003 9:12:29 AM PDT
by
Porterville
(I spell stuff wrong sometimes, get over yourself, you're not that great.)
To: Lokibob
250,000 mi / (30 days x 24 hrs/day x 15 mos) = 23 mph lateral procession.
Fairly slow, just like some in Europe.
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posted on
09/26/2003 9:13:56 AM PDT
by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
To: azhenfud
Fifteen months? The thing must be propelled by solar winds.... My thought exactly. With the Moon approximately 250,000 miles away...that means this thing is moving at approximately 23 miles per hour? Can that be right?
To: CasearianDaoist
Ion engines accelerate very slowly, but accelerate constantly. It won't get up to any great speeds between here and the moon, but between here and Jupiter would be a different story.
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posted on
09/26/2003 9:22:21 AM PDT
by
dead
(All that is not mandatory is prohibited.)
To: bedolido
"Despite decades of research, we have never fully discovered what the Moon is made of," says Manuel Grande Actual true statement: "Despite decades of sitting on our bu . . . laurels, we have never fully discovered what the Moon is made of," says Manuel Grande
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posted on
09/26/2003 9:24:21 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: Porterville
Like we haven't ever lost a satelite, or blew up a rocket, or misread english and metric dimmensions on a plan? The Euro's invented both the jet and the rocket.
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posted on
09/26/2003 9:30:11 AM PDT
by
ffusco
(Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
To: ffusco
That is true the Nazis... excuse me, the Euro's did create the rocket and jet...
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posted on
09/26/2003 9:34:54 AM PDT
by
Porterville
(I spell stuff wrong sometimes, get over yourself, you're not that great.)
To: Porterville
What does that have to do with anything? The scientists weren't Nazis and those programs pre-ceeded that regime. The rocket industry in Europe goes back to Marco Polo and gunpowder from China.
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posted on
09/26/2003 9:49:52 AM PDT
by
ffusco
(Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
To: ffusco
I just get my socialistic Euro weenies mixed up....
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posted on
09/26/2003 9:51:23 AM PDT
by
Porterville
(I spell stuff wrong sometimes, get over yourself, you're not that great.)
To: bedolido
"Despite decades of research, we have never fully discovered what the Moon is made of" Green cheese.
To: Porterville
That is true the Nazis... excuse me, the Euro's did create the rocket and jet... Don't leave out the buzz bomb they invented that to.
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posted on
09/26/2003 9:58:35 AM PDT
by
jokar
(Beware the White European Male Christian theological complex !!)
To: Porterville
The Euros for the most part are like our cranky grandpartents. They think they know it all and you can't tell them anything. Plus their feet are cold and wish we would turn that music down....
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posted on
09/26/2003 10:15:32 AM PDT
by
ffusco
(Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Hey, that's what I figured - 23 mph.
Slow. A telltale sign it's European.
Seems incredibly slow in comparison to non-powered, orbiting satellites. Isn't their orbit time approx. 90 min?
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posted on
09/26/2003 10:41:09 AM PDT
by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
To: ffusco
"
The Euro's invented both the jet and the rocket."
Sure. And the Chinese invented the magnetic compass, but their failure to implement the invention left them, well, as nothing but the inventor.
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posted on
09/26/2003 10:45:39 AM PDT
by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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