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Old November 26th 06, 07:43 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.shuttle,sci.space.station
Danny Dot[_1_]
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Does anyone know how we navigate our deep space probes? I know we use radar
and GPS in LEO. What do we use for deep space? My guess is we use Doppler
shift a lot -- but that is just a guess.

My understanding is the navigation system of the probe that had the unit
conversion error was "telling" us that there was a problem, but we didn't
have enough confidence in the navigation system to realize there was a
catastrophic error in the trajectory.

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