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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hmmm...when I was watching "when We Left Earth," I don' think I saw one solar panel deploy properly...here's hoping.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[(01)]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 4th 2008 3:49PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's only news when they don't. There are thousands of sats up there running on solar that had perfect deployments.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 4th 2008 5:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA[Wrong kind of solar power.<br><br>Solar PANELS produce electricity from sun light.<br><br>Solar SAILS replace the need for rockets, basically acting like a giant kite.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mr. Fax Sender]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 4th 2008 5:42PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA[Indeed but there have been some very big solar panels unfolded, the spacestations people put up there had some huge ones, although some of those had some issues unfolding too, you'd think that over 30 years they figured out what to look out for and make it work, but I guess they just keep having fresh engineers that start from scratch. And I guess the thinness and low mass of the sails don't help if they already have trouble with panels.<br>On the plus side, perhaps once they get it right we get some newfangled umbrellas as spin-off, space umbrellas.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wwhat]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 4th 2008 9:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA[Aww why you have to be trashing SpaceX? They're about the only actually effective private space venture out there. Branson/Rutan's operation is just a cheezy rich peoples roller coaster ride. Elon Musk and co. may actually be game changers.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[SeanG]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 4th 2008 6:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA[I suppose Orbital which has been privately putting satellites in space since 1990 doesn't count?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Smith]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 5th 2008 9:22AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA[Where's the laser to propel it?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Echo1]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 4th 2008 7:26PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA[We don't need no frickin' laser beams... It's powered by the "wind" from the sun. Hence the name SOLAR sail.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mr. E]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 5th 2008 5:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA[well, it's a solar sail, that's your first problem<br><br>tomo]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tomokazu.osada]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 4th 2008 8:49PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA[Problem is that all those nasa people come from the airforce and they fail at sailing, they need to get some navy people.<br><br>(j/k)<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wwhat]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 4th 2008 9:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hmm, now I'm waiting for the PSAs about keeping space clean, and Universal warming. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[paul34]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 4th 2008 9:15PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA[Check out the video of a test deployment.  <br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW1Pf0uMSug" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW1Pf0uMSug</a><br>BTW the form factor of satellite they are using is called a Cubesat.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[derb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 4th 2008 11:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA[What are the odds in crashes in Roswell?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TNP]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 5th 2008 9:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA["... aims to not repeat..."<br><br>I assume this is hyperbaton, though I'm not sure it's justifiable.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[allenvanhellen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 8th 2008 12:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/new-solar-sail-aims-to-not-repeat-recent-history/</guid><description><![CDATA[... or this could be hypercritical on my part.<br><br>Please excuse this smart-ass's fun.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[allenvanhellen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 8th 2008 12:31PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>