In addition to Banks, try Ken MacLeod (the Cassini Division, for example) and Tricia Sullivan (Someone to Watch Over Me). But have you _really_ exhausted the past?;-> Most people I know have never read Samuel R Delany's Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand.
The grain size of film is far smaller than that of a CCD element. One can thus get away with a cheaper optical train to deliver the same detectable information at the focal plane. There are no reloading missions. You use what you send up - the orbit is usually hyperbolic and the mission therefore of relatively short duration. Regards, E
Slashdot Mirror
In addition to Banks, try Ken MacLeod (the Cassini Division, for example) and Tricia Sullivan (Someone to Watch Over Me). But have you _really_ exhausted the past? ;-> Most people I know have never read Samuel R Delany's Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand.
A hyperbolic orbit is INDEED short! Should have said elliptical. End of a long day here.
The grain size of film is far smaller than that of a CCD element. One can thus get away with a cheaper optical train to deliver the same detectable information at the focal plane. There are no reloading missions. You use what you send up - the orbit is usually hyperbolic and the mission therefore of relatively short duration.
Regards,
E