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"The so-called ‘electric sail’ would use fifty to one hundred 20-kilometer long charged tethers, their voltage maintained by a solar-powered electron gun aboard the vehicle."

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"Not only will this be the longest artificial structure ever deployed in space, but it will also be the first time that a tether has been used to return a payload from space." Excellent stuf

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there's a tip to find where in the Apple Help Viewer on how to create an ad-hoc network

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