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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: Galileo's high-gain antenna still stuck
- Message-ID: <C0443L.8w2@news.iastate.edu>
- Keywords: Galileo, JPL
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Dec30.223543.23648@news.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:14:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.223543.23648@news.arc.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:
- > Yesterday, December 29, after approximately 20 hours of
- >warming in sunlight, the antenna-deploy motors were turned on to
- >"wind up" the system and then pulsed to "hammer" it in an effort
- >to free the stuck ribs of Galileo's high-gain antenna. The
- >procedures began at 6:55 a.m. PST and continued until 2:48 a.m.
- >PST this morning, December 30. A total of 2160 pulses were
- >executed by the motors during this period. The stuck ribs were
- >apparently not freed. This morning the spacecraft was returned
- >from the warming attitude to the normal cruise mode.
-
- Well, what now? What else is being planned to free the antenna? And is
- it expected to work?
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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