February 12th, 2004, 01:52 PM
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Re: Concept Work
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Originally posted by Kamog:
Maybe the wings are for taking off and landing on a planet with an atmosphere.
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To radiate the exess heat from the reactor/engine - in space there is no other way to cool your ship and no energy source is 100% efficient.
All future spacecraft will have some sort of wing-shape structures. Just take a look on the NASA concept nuclear-powered probe for Jupiter/Saturn survey !
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