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On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:25:11 -0400, "Jeff Findley"
wrote: My guess is that anything released by JPL or NASA about the HGA wouldn't directly point blame back at themselves. ....But, on the other hand, that sort of 3X "shock-n-vibe" testing would have been the standard way to make sure this most important piece of fragile equipment could survive a really rough launch. Harris was just as guilty in this by providing a piece of crap to begin with, which says they went shoestring all the way with the design from the start, and prayed for the best that it would be just good enough. A lot of blame on this one, kids. and not all on NASA or JPL's shoulders, either. OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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OM wrote:
Harris was just as guilty in this by providing a piece of crap to begin with If memory serves, Harris also provided all the TDRS antennas from which the Galileo design was closely derived, and none of those failed to deploy. Perhaps your "piece of crap" characterization is ... wrong. A lot of blame on this one, kids. You can drop the "kids" crap. We're all older than dirt around here. ;-) |
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If memory serves, Harris also provided all the TDRS antennas from which the Galileo design was closely derived, and none of those failed to deploy. The one on Galileo did get abused a lot more. In various tests, being trucked across country a few times and such. JPL did decide to use another type of antenna on Cassini. Maybe the HGA did finally open up when Galileo crashed into Jupiter's atmosphere at the end of mission.... Anyway, IIRC, the only science that took a big hit was the Jupiter weather science. |
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David Higgins wrote: OM wrote: Harris was just as guilty in this by providing a piece of crap to begin with If memory serves, Harris also provided all the TDRS antennas from which the Galileo design was closely derived, and none of those failed to deploy. Perhaps your "piece of crap" characterization is ... wrong. A lot of blame on this one, kids. You can drop the "kids" crap. We're all older than dirt around here. ;-) Yeah, OM seems to like referring to people as "kids". Though not older than dirt I tend to think of myself as old as the trees. Eric |
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On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 21:34:44 GMT, robert casey
wrote: Anyway, IIRC, the only science that took a big hit was the Jupiter weather science. ....Yeah, but half of that can be blamed on the fact that the probe landed in a water-free region :-) OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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