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- From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
- Subject: Re: Galileo coverup
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:55:00 GMT
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- In article <105898@bu.edu>, steelie@csa.bu.edu (James Howard) writes...
- >
- > Ok, so the title is a bit misleading. But it doesnt seem far from
- >the truth, according to what you read in the press. To my eyes,
- >there is absolutely NO WAY to get 70% of the original mission data
- >through the backup antenna. What was the data rate 4 or 5 months
- >ago.. 40bps?
- >
- >I dont care how much they throw around terms like "compression" , it
- >doesnt fool me. Anyone who has ever used a computer knows that
- >a 300bps modem is barely in the same species as a 19.2k. (for analogy's sake)
-
- Seventy percent of the science objectives can be obtained using the Low Gain
- Antenna. Compressions techniques (10x improvment) with upgrades to the
- Deep Space Network (another 10x improvement) will give an effective 100x
- improvement of the LGA's 10 bps transmission rate that it will be using
- at Jupiter. If you want more details, refer to the June 1992 press conference.
- Jon Leech transcribed this and it is available as galileo.gaspra.briefing1
- in the pub/SPACE/GALILEO directory at ames.arc.nasa.gov. This was posted to
- sci.space. Another file to check is the galileo.antenna.update1 file describing
- the hammering techniques which are currently in progress to opem the antenna.
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