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Re: Theoretical Question: Missile Design
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Sat, 7 Jun 2003 02:37:14 GMT
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"leonard hoffman" <glencaer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Theoretically speaking, or is it hypothetically, what would an ideal space
> missile look like?
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> concerning my picture here:
> <<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/glencaer/Kalashnikov/009missiles.jpg>>
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> i've got one big missile and several smaller ones that feature fins. • fins, of
> course, help control direction in an atmosphere. but would they be useful • in
> space?
Well, if you're borg, probably cubic or spherical would be "perfection."
But besides the structural uses of wings and fins for mounting weapons, etc,
there's another good use for them: heat dissipation. Big planar surfaces
can help radiate heat away much more efficiently. Also, they can collect
solar energy if you assume they have solar pannels mounted on them.
For a missile, solar panels are probably pretty useless, but having heat
radiating fins is probably practical. I would think most missiles would
have very big engines that need to dissipate a lot of heat.
-- Tom
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| (...) Pretty much. In space, only physical exhaust and gravity really do anything to generate propulsion, and solar energy isn't going to help much with either. Besides, solar energy is much better suited to long-term energy production, which is (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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| Theoretically speaking, or is it hypothetically, what would an ideal space missile look like? concerning my picture here: (URL) i've got one big missile and several smaller ones that feature fins. fins, of course, help control direction in an (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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