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- From: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell)
- Subject: Re: Galileo's high-gain antenna still stuck
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- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 00:06:19 GMT
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- In article <2JAN199323293310@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:
- >The hammering sessions will continue all the way through the entire month
- >of January, if necessary. Even though the first hammering attempt didn't
- >open up the antenna all the way, it did have a postive effect.
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- This certainly sounds like a spot of good news. My fingers are
- crossed. :)
-
- I am curious about one thing: the contingency plans for the 40 bps
- data speed vs the 110,000 (?) bps included a lossy compression
- scheme related to JPEG that would allow compression of between 10
- to 100 times. If the HGA is freed, allowing the high speed
- transmission, will the compression still be used (hopefully with
- 'a higher Q value') so that even _more_ data than anticipated in
- the original mission plan be returned?
-
- Joshua
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