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Joe Jakarta wrote:
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Where's *your* money, ladies and gentlemen?

1. Lack of funding.
2. Johnsen-Rahbek effect on the solar panels.

Did these spacecraft (Pioner 10 and 11) even have
solar panels? They were built for "outer system"
work, and solar panels would be useless.

I thought they had radioactive isotope power generators.

They did. But a quick glimpse didn't show anything that said they didn't
also have solar panels. But why they'd have something onboard that would
fail by Jupiter doesn't make sense to me.

David A. Smith

None of the available images and diagrams show solar panels on these craft.
Like this one, for instance:

http://quest.nasa.gov/sso/cool/pione...r/slide2lg.gif

George