[ RadSafe ] Solar Innovation

[JPreisig at aol.com]

Dear Radsafe:
 
     Hey All.
 
     Princeton University's main webpage has a news  item about an advance 
in solar cell technology, 
which will make solar cells much more efficient.  See their  website.
 
     Today NASA launched, using a conventional rocket,  the secret plane 
X-37B, for a long-
duration, robotically controlled, mission.  Read about it on Google  News.  
I suspect the plane, at the
very least, takes pictures (high resolution) of the Earth and beams the  
pictures back to Earth
in a timely manner.  Don't know what else it does.
 
     Many years ago, the resolving ability of a  satellite imaging system 
from Space was
about 5 centimeters by 5 centimeters, or so.  Bet that has improved  
nowadays.
Someone is watching YOU!!!!
 
     Have a good week.    Regards, Joe  Preisig