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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Pluto Direct/ options
- Message-ID: <BuC37u.2nC@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 23:14:15 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.173253.1837@access.digex.com> <1992Sep8.154547.13605@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Sep9.025730.29227@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Sep9.025730.29227@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wa2ise@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (robert.f.casey) writes:
- >I suppose that someone has figured out what design to change, or do better,
- >to avoid "stuck antenna" problems?
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- It's really very simple: don't use a folding antenna. Or if you must
- use one, launch the mission on a shuttle (heresy! heresy! :-)) and unfold
- the antenna before upper-stage ignition, so there's somebody around to
- *fix* it if it doesn't work. The antenna on Compton stuck too -- although
- in a somewhat different way -- and the shuttle crew went out and fixed it.
- --
- There is nothing wrong with making | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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