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- From: mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
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- Subject: Re: Visual inspection of Galileo?
- Keywords: Galileo, JPL
- Message-ID: <1992Dec7.150214.15846@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
- Date: 7 Dec 92 15:02:14 GMT
- References: <1992Dec4.182419.27881@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Dec6.220832.23849@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec6.220832.23849@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> blaak@csri.toronto.edu (Raymond Blaak) writes:
- >Is there any way to actually get a look at Galileo as it whips by Earth?
- >Maybe if a few hi-res pictures of it can be taken, we could actually SEE what
- >is wrong with its antenna.
-
- Probably not, it's moving *extremely* fast. Also, we know exactly
- what's wrong with the antenna, just not exactly how to fix it.
-
- From what I understand, the folks at JPL plan to take another stab at
- freeing the stuck ribs after the Earth encounter. Then the spacecraft
- will be warmer than it's been since the near Sun encounter. Hopefully
- that will affect the antenna enough for the motors to work.
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