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Space Tug to the Moon and Beyond

Posted by Zonk on from the toot-toot dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Andrews Space and SpaceDev, a contributor to SpaceShipOne, are building a cargo transport called SmallTug to travel to the Lunar L1 point using a Hall Thruster and running off of solar power. The final craft will be capable of attaching to and transporting satellites 85 percent of the way to the Moon for use in interplanetary missions. The launch date is scheduled for 2008 and it is being designed to be quite inexpensive. The Inquirer has more details."

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  1. Re:Radiation envrionment by lorelorn · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Holy spell check Batman! I did the text, but not the title!

    Is there a standard punishment for this?

  2. YOU fAIl IT!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    codebase b3came OVER THE SAME

  3. conceived of != invented (n/t) by subtropolis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    filler:

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    "Our interests are to see if we can't scale it up to something more exciting," he said.
  4. I'm waiting for GateShipOne by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SHEPPARD: Gate-ship one? *ford nods* A little Puddle Jumper like this?
    FORD: It's a ship, It goes through the Gate, Gate-ship one.
    SHEPPARD: Oh no, no, no that's all wrong.
    FORD: Dr McKay thought it was cool
    SHEPPARD: Oh, ok, well, It's official, you don't get to name anything, ever.