[SpaceProgram] Lagrange Solar Sail Challenge

[Alex Cureton-Griffiths]

Maybe have a line tethered to a weather balloon and have payloads somehow get 'carried' up the line like a cable car. That way can do tests much more quickly since don't have to send balloon up and down all the time.

Having said that, I have no idea how you could pull that off myself :) Could also use a kite instead of a weather balloon, though not sure if could get to the right altitude

On 3 Oct, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Lee von Kraus wrote:

> How about making and demonstrating a miniature microgravity 'generator' to allow DIY testing of things in microgravity on earth. It would be pretty easy and cheap and would open space research to the masses by allowing short duration generation of microgravity conditions. It could be a weather-balloon-dropped capsule or something with cameras build into the inside to allow observation of whatever short duration experiment one is interested in. This is a relatively quick and easy project that would help attract attention and funding, while also facilitating hackerspaces in doing their own future experiments.     
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> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Jerry Isdale <jerry at mauimakers.com> wrote:
> Apparently Arthur C Clarke did a story on Solar Sail racing (Sunjammer, aka The Wind from the Sun, ~1963)
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunjammer
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> A graphic novel/short of it is at 
>    http://240plan.ovh.net/~upngmmxw/imag/bd/bd_a.htm
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> Jerry Isdale
> http://MauiMakers.com
> http://www.mauimakers.com/blog/thursday-public-meeting/
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> On Oct 1, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Matt Johnson wrote:
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>> I think that is an outstanding idea. It is rather ambitious, has
>> anyone even been able to steer a solar sail yet?
>> 
>> I agree with Alex a spacers cup might attract some real money.
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>> --
>> Matt Johnson
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>> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Jerry Isdale <isdale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What do you think of a challenge to sail a solar sail around 3 earth
>>> Lagrange points?
>>> Would it be possible to control a sail to navigate around three such points?
>>> Maybe have a Spacers Cup, akin to America's Cup sail race.
>>> 
>>> Jerry Isdale
>>> isdale at gmail.com
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