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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Galileo Antenna. What's left to try?
- Message-ID: <Bryu1w.q0@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 22:20:19 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.190805.4575@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1992Jul24.191039.11492@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <l70u0fINNdvp@pollux.usc.edu>
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- In article <l70u0fINNdvp@pollux.usc.edu> srobiner@pollux.usc.edu (Steven Robiner) writes:
- >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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- You'd probably tear Galileo's long booms off well before you exerted
- any useful force on the antenna. The stuck antenna ribs are inches from
- the axis; the booms go out many feet.
-