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Followup [UPDATE] Cassini exits B-ring occultation, passes closest approach to Saturn,
OM scribed:
Graeme Carrott wrote: om contributes: ...On another side note, those expecting images during the ring plane pass will be disappointed. Hell, I'm just glad Cassini's made it through unscathed.... and looking forward to information from Saturn in the next four years. ...Same here. Still, it would be interesting to find out if there's enough fuel for such a crossing when it's time to wind up the mission. Sure would beat the hell visually out of dropping it into Saturn first :-) They mentioned going out of plane by as much as 75 deg late in the mission to get another overhead of the rings; perhaps that will include a crossing that they'll keep at least 1 camera active for. (Was part of the issue the use of the LGA during passage; I think they said the M or H GA was being used as a shield.) /dps |
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dave schneider wrote:
They mentioned going out of plane by as much as 75 deg late in the mission to get another overhead of the rings; perhaps that will include a crossing that they'll keep at least 1 camera active for. Cassini will cross the ring plane many times during the tour. It just won't cross it as close to *visible ring structure* as it did during SOI. (Was part of the issue the use of the LGA during passage; I think they said the M or H GA was being used as a shield.) Yes, the HGA was pointed in ram direction (and off Earth point) as a dust shield during the ascending and descending ring plane crossings before and after SOI. -- Alex R. Blackwell University of Hawaii |
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On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:39:53 -1000, "Alex R. Blackwell"
wrote: Yes, the HGA was pointed in ram direction (and off Earth point) as a dust shield during the ascending and descending ring plane crossings before and after SOI. ....And just to clarify, the LGA was used to send carrier only for doppler tracking thru the rings. Hence the dropouts when the A and B rings occluded the signal. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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