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| 2009-11-27 |
| European space agencies and an aerospace giant are developing a new re-entry heat shield that will use superconductor magnets to generate a magnetic field strong enough to deflect the superhot plasma formed during re-entry of returning spacecraft. They plan to test the new technology by attaching a test module to a missile and using a Russian submarine to fire it into space. The Volan and its magnetic heat shield would be launched into a suborbital trajectory from a Russian submarine at sea. The missile, a modified ballistic missile called Volna, would re-enter the Earth's atmospher at Mach 21 and come back to Earth in the Kamchatka peninsula, a remote region of the Russian Far East. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #8 Ala PAKISTANI DEFENCE EOFURM > CHINA'S dev = got the ANTI-GRAVITY MACHINE. D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, THE SIMPSONS > HIS NAME IS "SCORPIO", HE HAS THE "DOOMSDAY DEVICE", + HE'LL REALLY R-E-E-L-L-Y APPRECIATE IT IFF HOMER CAN KILL STORMIN' NORMAN + SOME SOLDIERS ON HIS WAY OUT FROM THE OFFICE!? SUB-D *** Ng IT, SCORPIO > DAT BRIDGE DID NOT COLLAPSE ON ITS OWN! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-11-27 22:22 |
| #7 Interesting method for spacecraft weight reduction. Of course, if something goes wrong (like cooling loss) then you're F'ed. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-11-27 13:40 |
| #6 Rapallo redux. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-11-27 13:35 |
| #5 how will this affect global worming and who is paying for the carbon credits? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2009-11-27 13:07 |
| #4 The real reason for the test is to remove money from EU bank accounts and budgets and deposit them in Russian bank accounts and budgets. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-11-27 11:46 |
| #3 have not yet finalized the technical details of exactly how they will fit it into a Russian "Volan" escape capsule for the test. Damn technical details, it's what keeps me from building mag-lev bridges to Cuba. |
| Posted by: Perry Stanford White 2009-11-27 06:19 |
| #2 Alright, I've got it. Now please tell me the REAL reason for the test. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-11-27 05:06 |
| #1 Wonder what that humongous EMP generator would do to the electronics in the spacecraft? And anything nearby? Anti-satellite weapon? |
| Posted by: tipover 2009-11-27 01:12 |