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Offline sam

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It’s Alive! NanoSail-D Suddenly and Spontaneously Comes Back to Life
« on: January 20, 2011, 02:07 »
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A small solar sail that was thought to be a lost cause has “spontaneously” come back to life. The NanoSail-D — a NASA-designed solar sail cubesat that launched in December but suddenly went silent without confirmation of its deployment — unexpectedly ejected from its host satellite on Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 11:30 a.m. EST. Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite ejected from Fast Affordable Scientific and Technology Satellite, FASTSAT, when they looked at onboard FASTSAT telemetry. The ejection of NanoSail-D also has been confirmed by ground-based satellite tracking.

http://www.universetoday.com/82647/its-alive-nanosail-d-suddenly-and-spontaneously-comes-back-to-life/
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Re: It’s Alive! NanoSail-D Suddenly and Spontaneously Comes Back to Life
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2011, 09:24 »
I love the name Fatsat. :)
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Re: It’s Alive! NanoSail-D Suddenly and Spontaneously Comes Back to Life
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2011, 10:51 »
It's FASTSAT!  ;D
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Re: It’s Alive! NanoSail-D Suddenly and Spontaneously Comes Back to Life
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2011, 10:57 »
So it is. Very Freudian of me. ;D
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Re: It’s Alive! NanoSail-D Suddenly and Spontaneously Comes Back to Life
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2011, 10:58 »
Indeed.  :)x
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Re: It’s Alive! NanoSail-D Suddenly and Spontaneously Comes Back to Life
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2011, 13:17 »
This is wonderful news.  Nanosail is the stuff of science fiction and could provide future generations with the means to conquer the Galaxy. 
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Re: It’s Alive! NanoSail-D Suddenly and Spontaneously Comes Back to Life
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2011, 13:29 »
Quote from: Rik on January 20, 2011, 10:57
So it is. Very Freudian of me. ;D

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Re: It’s Alive! NanoSail-D Suddenly and Spontaneously Comes Back to Life
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2011, 13:29 »
I don't thing nanosail and FATSAT would go well together...  :laugh:
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Re: It’s Alive! NanoSail-D Suddenly and Spontaneously Comes Back to Life
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2011, 13:53 »
;D
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