I saw a UFO a week or so ago, and to this day I am not sure what it was. It was late afternoon, right at or just shortly before sunset. In the western sky just above the mountains (as seen from Denver) there was a tiny, bright pinpoint of light. [The photo here is […]
Archive for November, 2007
Student space project a limited success
Published November 8th, 2007 in Space and Science. 0 CommentsBack in May I mentioned a program called YES2 involving some early orbital experimentation with the concept of a “space cable.”
YES2 was to unroll a 30 km (about 19 mile) long cable from an orbiting Russian spacecraft (Foton-M3). The intent was that the dangling probe (called Fotino) would skim the Earth’s upper atmosphere, then […]