'LIGHT' IS MISSING WORD
"Back in Play" (AW&ST Mar. 7, p. 38) suggests the MTSat vehicle solar sail will "balance it in the solar wind." That is not possible. The solar wind, a plasma pheno- menon associated with expansion of the solar atmosphere, does not penetrate into geosynchronous orbit. The standoff distance for the...
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