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I found “Solar Push” (AW&ST Aug. 22, p. 54) disappointing. Several NASA engineers from JPL are quoted as proposing high-voltage 300-kw solar arrays, and one says: “[A]s we have gone up in voltage bad things have happened in the past.” This is not surprising, inasmuch as it is caused by Paschen's...

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