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- From: srobiner@pollux.usc.edu (Steven Robiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Galileo Antenna. What's left to try?
- Date: 24 Jul 1992 14:37:19 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1992Jul21.190805.4575@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1992Jul24.191039.11492@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Jul24.191039.11492@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
- >The best news occurred in the past week when the motors were
- >turned on twice for a two second duration each time. The data indicates
- >ballscrew had turned and this provides a lot of confidence in the
- >upcoming pulsing attempt.
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- If that doesn't work....
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- Has anyone considered the possibility of spinning the probe
- very fast along the axis of the antenna? Perhaps the centriptal force
- might pull the antenna into place.
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- =steve=
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- >>What is the confidence that *some* technique will succeed?
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- >The best news occurred in the past week when the motors were
- >turned on twice for a two second duration each time. The data indicates
- >ballscrew had turned and this provides a lot of confidence in the
- >upcoming pulsing attempt.
- > ___ _____ ___
- > /_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov
- > | | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |
- > ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | Most of the things you
- >/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | worry about will never
- >|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | happen.
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