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cawest
post May 22 2008, 03:13 AM
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Has anyone heard of any plans for a extra solar system probe? i read some time ago about they might use the Ares 5 to get it out there.
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ngunn
post May 22 2008, 10:34 AM
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I think I've posted this link before. You're probably aware of it, but here goes anyway:
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~diedrich/sola...m_beam_sail.pdf
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mchan
post May 23 2008, 06:19 AM
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That is an interesting read apart from the more well-known fictional works of one of the authors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford
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- cawest   extra solar probes   May 22 2008, 03:13 AM
- - ngunn   I think I've posted this link before. You...   May 22 2008, 10:34 AM
|- - mchan   That is an interesting read apart from the more we...   May 23 2008, 06:19 AM
- - nprev   I had not seen this before, Nigel; thanks! An...   May 22 2008, 12:16 PM
|- - tedstryk   It would be nice...I would like to see a quickie f...   May 22 2008, 03:45 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (tedstryk @ May 22 2008, 04:45 PM) ...   May 22 2008, 04:07 PM
- - Paolo   There are some infos on the Ares launched interste...   May 25 2008, 07:40 PM
- - Celeritas   QUOTE (cawest @ May 21 2008, 11:13 PM) Ha...   Jun 4 2008, 08:18 PM

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