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- From: cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Chuck Shotton)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Galileo update?
- Message-ID: <cshotton-270193111125@oac2.hsc.uth.tmc.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:22:00 GMT
- References: <93025.205009IO20721@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> <26JAN199316452669@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Jan27.133908.16401@prime.mdata.fi> <27JAN199316252809@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- In article <27JAN199316252809@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>,
- baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) wrote:
- >
- > I don't think that would be a wise thing to do. The motor firing has be
- > done at a precise time with the spacecraft in the proper attitude. If the
- > hammering was done during the motor firing, and the antenna was to pop
- > open, it could change the spacecraft attitude enough to really mess up the
-
- What's to say it won't pop open anyway?
-
- > orbit insertion. Besides, the spacecraft will very busy as it is during
- > the orbit insertion, collecting the probe data, performing a 1000 km Io flyby
- > and collecting science data on Jupiter.
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- Will there be an attempt to open the antenna AFTER Galileo is in orbit (on
- the assumption that the firing may have jarred things loose)?
-