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 Aug 27 2005, 12:44 PM
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After 5-month hiatus
*...the ion drive has been "nominally" restarted. QUOTE The EP power is being set to 1325W due to the Sun distance seasonal effect. QUOTE The EP operations are planned to last until mid September assuming simulator behaviour. The second half of September has been reserved for possible special operations in case the engine does not behave as expected. Also lists future activities and gives a rundown on status. All is well, it seems. Includes photo of the ion drive and its "exhaust." |
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Aug 27 2005, 05:00 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10226 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
They feed it lentils?
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Jan 16 2006, 05:49 PM
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The European Space Agency and the Australian National University have successfully tested a new design of spacecraft ion engine that dramatically improves performance over present thrusters and marks a major step forward in space propulsion capability.
http://www.physorg.com/news9786.html The new engine is over ten times more fuel efficient than the one used on SMART-1. "Using a similar amount of propellant as SMART-1, with the right power supply, a future spacecraft using our new engine design wouldn't just reach the Moon, it would be able to leave the Solar System entirely," says Dr Roger Walker of ESA's Advanced Concepts Team, Research Fellow in Advanced Propulsion and Technical Manager of the project. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Palomar Ion Drive Restarted Aug 27 2005, 12:44 PM
abalone QUOTE (Palomar @ Aug 27 2005, 11:44 PM)After ... Aug 27 2005, 12:52 PM
Bob Shaw QUOTE (abalone @ Aug 27 2005, 01:52 PM)It was... Aug 27 2005, 01:01 PM abalone QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Aug 28 2005, 12:01 AM)Is th... Aug 27 2005, 01:05 PM Toma B Amazing!!! Well done!!! ... Jan 16 2006, 05:55 PM |
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