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- From: jarnis@mits.mdata.fi (Jarno Kokko)
- Subject: Re: Galileo update?
- Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:39:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.133908.16401@prime.mdata.fi>
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- In article <26JAN199316452669@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:
- >In article <93025.205009IO20721@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, Michael Petersen <IO20721@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes...
- >>Could someone tell me if NASA has successfully deployed the high-gain
- >>antenna on Galileo yet? I heard that their most "aggressive" attempts
- >>would occur after the the last Earth flyby.
- >
- >The recent hammerings have not opened the antenna. The first hammering
- >attempt turned the ballscrew an additional full rotation, but it has
- >not budged since. Despite 13,000+ hammerings at different frequencies
- >and at various antenna temperatures, the ribs are still stuck. One last
- >attempt will be made by spinning up the spacecraft from 3 rpm to 10 rpm
- >in March, but this is not expected to do much. March has been designated
- >as the deadline to open the antenna. After that the focus will be
- >on the Ida flyby in August and a low gain antenna mission. One other
- >event that may open the antenna is the Jupiter orbit insertion in December
- >1995. The solid rotor motor will fire for an hour and the resulting
- >vibrations may jar the antenna loose, but this is to be considered a long shot.
- > ___ _____ ___
- > /_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov
- > | | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |
- > ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | Every once in a while,
- >/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | try pushing your luck.
- >|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ |
- >
-
- Have people thought about combining hammering with the orbit insertion?
- I think hammering when whole spacecraft is vibrating due to motor
- firing would shake loose about anything :-) .. Or is it impossible
- due to some minor technical detail?
-
- - Jarnis <jarnis@mits.mdata.fi>
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