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- From: mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
- Subject: Re: Relay to Follow Galileo?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.150134.22023@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:01:34 GMT
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- In article <246900038@peg.pegasus.oz.au> wlmss@peg.pegasus.oz.au writes:
- >
- >Why not send a craft along behind Galileo to relay information back to
- >Earth at a suitable rate?
- >
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- The team at JPL have reprogrammed Galileo with new compression techniques
- that will allow retrieval of about 90% of the planned science data,
- if I'm not mistaken. Also, I doubt we could put one together by
- '95 with the current management. Technically it's probably doable,
- but it's hard enough getting the funding for the currently planned missions.
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