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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Magellan Update - 11/20/92
- Message-ID: <By32px.8Lp@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:39:32 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.232659.8134@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1ellrpINNh2a@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1ellrpINNh2a@rave.larc.nasa.gov> claudio@nmsb.larc.nasa.gov (Claudio Egalon) writes:
- >I have a question about the aerobraking maneuver that the Magellan
- >will perform; Is there any possibility that any of the components of
- >the Magellan be damaged during this maneuver??? ...
-
- It's a concern. This is why Magellan aerobraking would be done gradually
- over many orbits, rather than in one blazing high-drag pass. Magellan isn't
- really designed for it.
-
- >BTW, I think Magellan will become the first spacecraft to conduct an
- >aerobraking maneuver to change its orbit, right???
-
- Wrong. Hiten -- the Japanese engineering-test mission that's been batting
- around the Earth-Moon system for a couple of years -- did a small Earth
- aerobraking maneuver in spring 1991.
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- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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