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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Lubrication problem (was Re: Galileo Stuck Ribs / Remote Manipulator?)
- Message-ID: <C1I6KL.It5@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:07:31 GMT
- References: <9JAN199318252344@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Jan13.064524.13581@mr.med.ge.com> <1993Jan14.173050.20146@ke4zv.uucp> <1993Jan14.203635.21807@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1993Jan14.175452.1@fnala.fnal.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan14.175452.1@fnala.fnal.gov> higgins@fnala.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
- >> Who told you that loss of lubricant was the problem? How about a
- >> broken or cracked rib, or some other less obvious reason for the
- >> jam?
- >
- >Loss of lubricant during truck travel is the best guess of Galileo's
- >engineers...
-
- It's important to note, though, that it remains only a theory, not an
- established fact. What's more, this theory seems rather low in predictive
- power: the same folks who told us that loss of lubricant was probably
- the failure mode also told us that the heating/cooling turn sequence
- would probably work the stuck ribs loose. It didn't.
-
- This is not to say that I have any better ideas, but do bear in mind
- that the hard evidence is slim and our experience with such failures
- essentially nonexistent.
- --
- "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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