Solar Sail Readies for Early Warning Mission
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Uploaded by NASAMarshallTV on Dec 9, 2011
NASA's Solar Sail project, directed by L'Garde of Tustin, Calif., plans to take this innovative technology beyond Earth's orbit. The spacecraft will have a "sail" one quarter the size of a football field and park in a pseudo LaGrange point closer to the sun to double the current warning period for dangerous solar flares. Slated for launch in late 2014, the instrument aboard the solar sail craft will use the sun's photon radiation to gently offset the corresponding pull of the sun's gravity.
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WTF is a gram of thrust?
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@NewVahan2011 We went to space pretty much to make sure that the Russians didn't get any weapons into orbit before we did. That was really the whole incentive. Then the moon was to make sure they didn't land before us, because they had already orbited it before we did. Not bashing what you're saying. Just pointing out how the war crazed minds of our government kind of led to us having the ability to travel in space.
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Just imagine what we could have achieved if, instead of investing in wars, we were investing in NASA.
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