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- From: jgreen@zeus.calpoly.edu (James Thomas Green)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Cassini Undergoes Intensive Design Review
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.105646.132744@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 10:56:46 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.053616.8145@news.arc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec10.232527.643937@locus.com> <Bz3trA.3p3@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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- >In article <1992Dec10.232527.643937@locus.com> hayim@locus.com (Hayim Hendeles) writes:
- >>Pardon my asking an ignorant question, but I can't understand why it
- >>should take 7 years to get to Saturn. When Voyager went to Jupiter and
- >>Saturn, it took (if I recall correctly) 4 years and a Jupiter flyby to
- >>make it to Saturn. Here, you are using 4 flybys, and it's taking you 7
- >>years! I would think that if you were to adjust the launch date so that
- >>Jupiter and Saturn were in the same relative positions as they were in
- >>1977 (when Voyager was launched), you could do the same trick again...
- >
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- One thing to remember that's different about Cassini than
- Voyager is that Cassini has to stop while voyager kept going.
- Voyager could zoom by, but Cassini has to be able to stop.
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- /~~~(-: James T. Green :-)~~~~(-: jgreen@eros.calpoly.edu :-)~~~\
- | "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving |
- | the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the |
- | Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." |
- | <John F. Kennedy; May 25, 1961> |
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