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[vsnet-chat 3732] why is Galileo looking at delta Vel?
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:01:10 GMT
- To: vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
- From: Fraser Farrell <fraser@trilobytes.com.au>
- Subject: [vsnet-chat 3732] why is Galileo looking at delta Vel?
- Sender: owner-vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Why is the Galileo spacecraft looking at delta Vel?
I thought NASA always used Sun + Canopus to orient their spacecraft. And
I can't imagine Galileo wasting any of its precious low-data-rate
transmission time on anything not related to Jupiter or essential
spacecraft functions.
Maybe I'm missing something really obvious...I'm puzzled.
cheers,
Fraser Farrell
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