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  1. Comment on ‘Termination shock’: cut in ship pollution sparked global heating spurt in ~enviro

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    Remember reading about this when the news first broke on this find. Might have been weeks, months, or years back? There are some ideas floating around about how to mimic the particle effect by...

    Remember reading about this when the news first broke on this find. Might have been weeks, months, or years back? There are some ideas floating around about how to mimic the particle effect by spraying sea water into the air or other marine cloud brightening methods. Here is one idea floated back in 2009.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/albedo-yachts-and-marine-clouds/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening

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  2. NASA newest solar sail system launched (2024-04-23)

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    If this tech interests you keep an eye out for June/July when they expect to deploy the sail. Rocket Lab’s Electron blasted off at 6:32 p.m. ET on April 23, successfully delivering both payloads...

    If this tech interests you keep an eye out for June/July when they expect to deploy the sail.

    Rocket Lab’s Electron blasted off at 6:32 p.m. ET on April 23, successfully delivering both payloads to low Earth orbit. - Gizmodo

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    After a busy initial flight phase, which will last about two months and includes subsystems checkout, the microwave oven-sized CubeSat will deploy its reflective solar sail. The weeks-long test consists of a series of pointing maneuvers to demonstrate orbit raising and lowering, using only the pressure of sunlight acting on the sail. - NASA

    https://www.nasa.gov/mission/acs3/

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