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- From: mcgrew@dropout.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
- Subject: Re: The Phobos II Incident
- Keywords: Phobos II
- Message-ID: <Nov.21.23.43.45.1992.19650@dropout.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 04:43:46 GMT
- References: <davidj.722042573@wrs.com> <1992Nov18.143921.19479@ioe.ac.uk>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- teexijd@ioe.ac.uk (IAN DAVENPORT) writes:
- Flame me if I'm wrong here, but wasn't the problem with Phobos
- II that the control center accidentally sent the craft a
- "switch off antenna" signal, realising then that the craft
- could not receive any "switch on antenna" signals they might
- send.
-
- ...actually, there were two phobos craft, and one was accidently
- disabled by its controllers (I don't remember the details offhand, but
- it was something like you describe.) The second craft successfully
- (and functioning) made it to Mars, and then whatever happened to it
- happened.
-
- Charles
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