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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Galileo's high-gain antenna still stuck
- Message-ID: <C094sx.Gqo@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:17:20 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.223543.23648@news.arc.nasa.gov> <C0443L.8w2@news.iastate.edu> <2JAN199323293310@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> <93Jan03.000619.18712@acs.ucalgary.ca>
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- In article <93Jan03.000619.18712@acs.ucalgary.ca> jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell) writes:
- >... 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?
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- The on-board computers don't have the horsepower to do serious compression
- at 100-odd kbps.
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- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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