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- From: mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
- Subject: Re: Relay to Follow Galileo?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.151120.22383@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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- References: <1992Dec14.034918.7060@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:11:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.034918.7060@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> rkornilo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ryan Korniloff) writes:
- >Well why did the HGA have to be cloed up in the first place? If it is too
- >big, then couldn't they have used a more powerful transmitter? I would
- >have rather tried to avoid such a chance for failure. If thay don't get
- >that HGA open then %30-%40 of the mission objectives will be lost. Or is
- >the radio frequncy have something to do with he size of the HGA???
- >
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- So it would fit in the shuttle's cargo bay. But, even if NASA had
- used an expendable (say a Titan/Centaur) I think it would have had
- to be furled. The HGA is 4.8m across. Wcould that fit inside the
- shroud of a Titan/Centaur? I don't have any figures handy.
-
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