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New Motor Can Cut Space Exploration Costs

Posted April 20, 2012 8:29 AM

From Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories:

A European team of researchers led by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland has developed a prototype of a new, ultra-compact motor that will enable small satellites to journey beyond Earth's orbit. The objective of this new motor is to make space exploration less expensive.

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04/21/2012 12:01 PM

"The motor can be mounted on satellites as small as 10 x 10 x 10 square cubic metres"...

Run that by me again .

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04/21/2012 2:58 PM

Wait! It gets even better?

"The price tag for the small satellites is around USD 500 million; the price for larger ones runs into the hundreds of millions."
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04/22/2012 2:46 PM

Thats 10 x 10 x 10 cm, not cubic meters.

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04/22/2012 3:36 PM

I can see that - but there's a "square" in there as well. If they're going to have scientifically illiterate people writing the articles they should at least have someone with a bit of knowhow proof-reading them.

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04/23/2012 2:53 PM

Are you sure you are not confusing the comments section with the main article?

That seems to be the only place "square cubic metres" is mentioned.

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04/23/2012 4:07 PM

Just re-re-visited to discover that the main article's been edited. My quote was copy/pasted before the edits.

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04/23/2012 7:08 PM

Well that explains it.

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