[amsat-bb] Re: could we raise orbit etc.

["i8cvs" <domenico.i8cvs@xxxxxx>]

Hi Don, ZL1THO

Viktor Kudielka, OE1VKW , viktor.kudielka@ieee.org
is the right person to answere your question.

73" de

i8CVS Domenico

----- Original Message -----
From: "don" <donmc@xtra.co.nz>
To: <AMSAT-BB@amsat.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 5:35 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] could we raise orbit etc.


> This is so on topic that it deserves to grow a life.
>
> Since both the earth and the sun have magnetic fields it may be
> possible, at various times depending on the relative positions of the
> spacecraft, earth and sun to change the spacecraft velocity by using
> magnetic systems.
>   This is an interesting subject that is sure to have been discussed
> before, but an internet search didn't come up with much at all.
>   Some one on the list will probably be able to point to some research
> on the subject.
>   For sure it would be a slow,computation intensive endeavor but I
> cannot see why it, theoretically at least, cannot be done.
>
>   Don
>       ZL1THO
>       AMSAT MEMBER 36225
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