Sailing the Solar Winds

[filkertom]

Cosmos-1 launches tomorrow.

Comments

[jeffreycornish.livejournal.com]

I have been so waiting for this for such a long time.

There is a heck of a team doing that project. They had thier one-bladed prototype burn up when it didn't seperate from the launcher's 3rd stage.

They had the pyros to deploy the blades on this full up solar sail-craft fire off during testing (important tip, check if you are using the testbed software or the flight software before testing on the test stand).

They had to replace a radio on it.

I wish them all the luck in the world!

-Jeffrey

[ludzu-alus.livejournal.com]

I (and my significant other) are quite quite excited about this! It's not exactly flying cars, but it'll do! :)

[druidsfire.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking of Tron and Flight of the Dragonfly and thinking this is just gonna rock if it works. :)

[scruffycritter.livejournal.com]

I dont know wtf is going on buy my router is right now reporting a syn-flood attack from planetory.org (or maybe it's my machine TRYING to attack IT), which is one of the site's I viewed the solar sail article on...