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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Hello and finless tec
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 19:50:43 GMT
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- In article <19921218074150.Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu> Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu (Roger Wilfong) writes:
- >You could just use a big spring between the spin table and the WESTAR to get
- >the satellite airborne. That should get you even more mission points,
- >because that's the way NASA gets the satellite out of the shuttle. You
- >could rig the spring release to a burn-thread or similar arrangement so it
- >would be triggered off of the ejection charge of the spin motor.
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- Uh oh... the launcher can't impart momentum to the model,
- remember? Hmm.. suppose the spring is in the model?
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