[ExI] pentagon wants orbiting solar power stations

[Dagon Gmail]

Thanks for urging me to become a rocket scientist.

> On Wednesday 17 October 2007 01:58, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:47:50PM +0200, Dagon Gmail wrote:
> > > me a nauseous feeling. My gut is telling me things are going
> > > all wrong.
> >
> > Then go into engineering, or start a business, and make it happen.
> > I'm serious. If you don't yet know what do with your life, that's
> > an interesting and lucrative niche. Before very long, it will
> > become a mature industry, and entry threshold will have become
> > too high for small new players.
>
> Better yet, to get the space-industry you (Dagon) want, try also helping
> out the open source rocketry scene. At the moment it is quite limited:
>
> http://opensourcespacecraft.org/wiki/Main_Page
> http://www.developspace.net/wiki/Main_Page
>
> Akin's laws of spacecraft design:
> http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/old_site/academics/akins_laws.html
>
> Our friends at Artemis (join the mailing list):
> http://www.asi.org/adb/04/02/
>
> Some spacecraft design references:
> http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/design_lib/design_lib.html
>
> Note URL:
> http://www.hellsgeriatrics.co.uk/diy-spacecraft.htm
> http://spacecraft.sourceforge.net/
>
> Spacecraft design archives:
> http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~cdhall/Space/archives/cat_design.html
>
> My favorite spacecraft design bibliography:
> http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/archive/general/bib.html
>
> http://spacelist.org/design.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_design
> http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/old_site/design_lib/SC_design_library.html
>
> - Bryan
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