Meteroids and solar sails - again

From: "Clements, Robert"
To:
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 3:01 AM
Subject: RE: [spacesettlers] Meteroids and solar sails - again

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> ... however, these plasma sails are different to the ones which you
propose;
> & use the existing magnetic charge of the solar wind to get the job done.
> This is simpler & better than your solution; because the solar wind is
> another free resource which doesn't have to be delivered to the surface by
> the human operators.
>

Uh, in fact I was not proposing a new model of sail, I was proposing a
method for avoiding the need to despin a meteoroid... The sails that my
system would use could be either the ones that Al Globus proposes in his
paper (http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/papers/AsterAnts/paper.html ) or your
plasma sails... Please refer to message #1095 for more information on the
problem.

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> All the best,

All the best,

> Robert Clements
> endeavour2 project
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Lucio Coelho