On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Chuck Kuecker wrote:
> Boost it up a few tens of miles, and use a solar sail???
You don't want to do one thing: operate a solar sail
anywere with nonzero drag, as in LEO. I don't have any
numbers, but I'd be really surprised if you could unfold
a solar sail without deorbiting *real quick* anywhere
below one meameter.
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