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Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
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lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au
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Fri, 22 Jun 2001 20:55:47 GMT
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In lugnet.space, David Drew writes:
> Wrong! Ion rockets are in use now, and have been for 30 years. They're just
> not big enough to for sub-orbital work.
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> See
> http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/08/18/deep.space.1/index.html
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> later,
> David Drew
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kyle D. Jackson" <flightdeck@sympatico.deletethisspamblock.ca>
> To: <lugnet.space@lugnet.com>; <lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 11:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
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> In lugnet.space, Jesse Alan Long writes:
> > notably our space program, all over the world. These same companies are
> > working with contractors to develop newer types of engines such as an ion
> > propulsion system for the future replacements of the space shuttle, of • which
> > some people may say that they may be in production and used in outer space
> > as early as the year 2003.
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> Ion drives will not be in use in 2003. The only form of space engines
> that are currently in production are rockets. There are liquid-fuelled
> rockets, which can be turned on and off ("throttled"), and there
> are solid-fuel rockets which cannot be turned off once started. Examples
> of liquid-fuelled rockets are the main engines on the Space Shuttle,
> and the manoeuvring thrusters on the Space Shuttle (actually, somebody
> please check me on that, are they really rocket thrusters, or just
> pressurized gas?). Examples of solid-fuel rockets are the two boosters
> on the side of the Space Shuttle.
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> There are a variety of engine concepts being researched for the future,
> but none are in use. These include SCRAMjets (no good in space, only
> in the atmosphere), nuclear power, etc. Most of these concepts only
> change what the engine uses for energy or "fuel", and not how they
> generate the thrust to move a ship---they still rely upon a rocket
> nozzle for the thrust. Most of these engine ideas, including "ion
> drives" are still the stuff of science fiction, and it will be a very
> long time before we see them in use..., *if* they ever see use.
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> KDJ
> _______________________________________
> LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Perhaps I was referring to the fact that they may have been trying to build
larger ion engines for space travel? I know that these engines are a
defininte possibility and I apologize for my error, David.
Jesse Long
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| Wrong! Ion rockets are in use now, and have been for 30 years. They're just not big enough to for sub-orbital work. See (URL) Drew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle D. Jackson" <flightdeck@sympatic...mblock.ca> To: <lugnet.space@lugnet.com>; (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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