Our announced launch period of 1 March to 5 April 2005 has slipped a bit.
We now project that Cosmos 1 will launch in April. The testing on the
flight spacecraft has gone well, but some corrections and fixes have been
required. To enhance reliability, extra precautions have been
Mariner 10 used did a little solar sailing when controllers were concerned
it wouldn't have
enough maneuvering thruster fuel left for its explorations of
Mercury. Cosmos 1 is going to be
the first fully dedicated mission to solar sailing, and at an incredibly
low price for a space
mi
RRY KLAES
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From: LARRY
KLAES
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Subject: Cosmos 1 the feature story in latest The Planetary
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http://planetary.org/news/2004/tpr11-12_04toc.html
Cosmos 1: The Journey
Begins!
Its finally happening
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13422809&BRD=1395&PAG=461&dept_id=216620&rfi=6
Launch date set for Cosmos 1 solar sail
mission
After a number of
delays both technical and political, the Cosmos 1 mission, the first true solar
sail satellite, has finally received a
Yesterday, on what would have been Carl Sagan's 70th birthday, they started
the countdown
for the launch date of the Cosmos 1 solar sail mission. You can read
about this in the next
two items:
http://www.planetary.org/news/2004/ss_launch_set_1109.html
* Planetary Society
http://planetary.org/solarsail/update_20040326.html
Solar Sail Update by
Project Director Louis FriedmanMarch 26, 2004
In February 2004 I presented a
paper on behalf of our solar sail project team
about the development of Cosmos 1 at the American Astronautical Society (AAS)
Space
THE UNEXPLORED COSMOS From Astrobiology Magazine 20 November 2003 Ann Druyan, the widow of renowned scientist Carl Sagan, and astrophysicist Steven Soter collaborated with Sagan over many years to create the famed television series Cosmos and numerous other projects. In this interview with
I agree wholeheartedly. I loved the series as a kid, and now love to watch the DVD set
with my daughter.
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I just got through with watching a DVD
I just got through with watching a DVD from my
Cosmos box set -- episode VI, "Traveller's Tales",
which is focused on the Voyager spacecraft. There's
a great segment in it featuring the scientists
working at JPL in Pasedena on the day when mankind
got its first close-u
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=00042A0E-6B16-1F8D-AB1683414B7F Light Sails to Orbit NASA watches from the sidelines as Cosmos 1, the first solar sail, goes up By Philip Yam Shiny and crinkly, the material looks more like something meant to wrap frozen foods
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:18:45PM +0100, Schmidt Mickey Civ 34 EDG/34ES wrote:
> Someone involved with the project ought suggest a test. I am assumming that
> the solar sail will have some type of accellerometer on board. The test
> would involve the USAF Starfire Laser Lab. After the solar sail h
Mickey, if you read the article starting with the section "The Mylar Flower of Space", you will see that two accelerometers are on board Cosmos 1. The next section also briefly discusses the plan to use a ground-based laser to push the solar sail if all goes well with the initial tests
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clear. While this was both required and desired in those early years, a small but growing number of pioneers in the field have dedicated themselves to exploring the universe with a power source more reliable and free than the winds of Earth: sunlight. Soon a craft named Cosmos 1 will become kn
ROCKET SCIENCE- Solar Sail Launch Awaits Clearing of Volna Rocket http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-03f.htmlWashington - Feb 26, 2003 - The development of the Cosmos 1 solar sail spacecraft is going well despite some delays with some of the spacecraft electronics. We are, however
From: Charlene Anderson
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001
3:01 PMTo: planetarysocietySubject: Solar Sail Launch
Update
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FORWARD THIS E-MAIL!Dear
Friend:The spacecraft for the suborbital test flight of our Cosmos 1
solar sail is now repaired and
These Web sites contain artwork, diagrams, animations,
and films of the Cosmos 1 solar sail mission, set for
a suborbital test from a Russian nuclear submarine next
month and the first orbital flight this October.
http://carlsagan.com/solarsail/index.html
http://www.planetary.org/html/news
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~diedrich/solarsails/news/Cosmos_1_Press_Release
.html
For Immediate Release: February 26, 2001
Contact:
Susan Lendroth
626-793-5100 ext 237
Warren Betts
626-836-2080
THE PLANETARY SOCIETY AND COSMOS STUDIOS ANNOUNCE COSMOS 1
THE FIRST SOLAR SAIL SPACE MISSION
ive Cosmos, author's style can make
difference in selling science, says Cornell researcher
Contact: David Brand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Contact: Blaine P. Friedlander, Jr.
Office: 607-255-3290
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