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- From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh 'K' Hopkins)
- Subject: Re: Is Galileo's antenna still brok?
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- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 14:29:44 GMT
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- evert@CPSnet2.cps.edu (Mike Evert) writes:
-
- >How's that antenna doing? The last few Galileo updates that I've seen
- >posted here had nothing to say on the subject. Did they fix it or
- >give up on it? Is there hope?
-
- The High Gain Antenna is still not functional. Someone from JPL told me
- recently that they have discovered that if they turn on the motor very briefly,
- it will advance a tiny amount, but not slip back. He said that they plan to
- try this up to a hundred times and hopefully will be able to get the screw to
- advance at least a full revolution. He was optimistic, but "we won't know until
- we try."
- It should be noted that thanks to compression techniques, JPL expects to do
- 75% of the science they had planned even if the HGA never opens, including
- receiving 100% of the data from the atmospheric probe.
- --
- Josh Hopkins Friends don't let friends derive drunk
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