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- From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)
- Subject: Re: Real Programmers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.023814.21077@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 02:38:14 GMT
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- > The current plan for the Galileo spacecraft is to use a gravity assist
- > trajectory past Mars on the way to Jupiter. This trajectory passes within 80
- > +/-3 kilometers of the surface of Mars. Nobody is going to trust a PASCAL
- > program (or a PASCAL programmer) for navigation to these tolerances.
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- Sorry for posting this in a FORTRAN newsgroup, but Galileo is going nowhere
- near Mars. It just made its third and final gravity assist at Earth three
- days ago. The previous two were at Earth and Venus. It did, however, pass
- about 190 miles above the surface of the Earth; that is a rather tight
- navigational tolerance.
-