Applying CPR to this thread in the hopes that Mal hasn't forgotten about this story.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/17 ... o_to_mars/]The Register has a story about a way to areobrake and land on Mars. Don't know whether the technique or the equipment will work for something the size of Ptichka, though...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/17 ... o_to_mars/]The Register has a story about a way to areobrake and land on Mars. Don't know whether the technique or the equipment will work for something the size of Ptichka, though...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012