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- From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh 'K' Hopkins)
- Subject: Re: What happened to Viking?
- References: <1992Aug20.233734.691@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1992Aug21.222739.19157@nas.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 01:28:44 GMT
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- eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
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- >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.)
-
- Wait a minute. Neither Gallileo nor Magellan were major customers of
- the Deep Space Network ten years ago. According to "Quest For Space," lander
- 1 stopped transmitting on 19 Nov, 1982, orbiter 1 on 7 Aug, 1980. Lander 2
- stopped in April of 1980 and orbiter 2 on 7 July 1981. I'm quite certain all
- of these were spacecraft failures, not shutdowns and the fact that the dates
- are spread over more than 2 years supports that. The landers weren't
- transmitting anything but meteorological data by the time they died, so they
- wouldn't have been using much antenna time or money.
-
-
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- Josh Hopkins j-hopkins@uiuc.edu, or jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
-
- "A goal is a dream taken seriously." -Uncle Walt.
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