home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!data.nas.nasa.gov!wilbur!eugene
- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: What happened to Viking?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.222739.19157@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 22:27:39 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.233734.691@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator)
- Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Lines: 20
-
- In article <1992Aug20.233734.691@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- burris@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (John Burris) writes:
- >What happened the Viking spacecraft?
-
- Both lands and orbiters were shut down for lack of funds and the need to use
- the antenna resources for other projects (Galileo, Magellan, power
- distribution experiments, SETI, etc.)
-
- >I heard through the grapevine that someone sent a bogus signal to it which
- >turned the antenna away from Earth, resulting in LOS.
-
- That was Voyager II (briefly).
-
- [Not reading regularly.]
-
- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
- Resident Cynic, Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers
- {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
- Second Favorite email message: Returned mail: Cannot send message for 3 days
- A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
-