Recent terminology change
May. 30th, 2008 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemackWhen did they start calling deployed photoelectric power sources on spacecraft 'solar wings' rather than 'solar panels'?
I suppose they are very occasionally actually used as wings, but the only example I can think of it aerobraking into orbit around Mars.
I suppose they are very occasionally actually used as wings, but the only example I can think of it aerobraking into orbit around Mars.
