Galileo antennae article

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
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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. ;-)

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.

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

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
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