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Re: Cassini Flies by Saturn.
« on: June 29, 2004, 02:39:11 PM »
Superb....



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Re: Cassini Flies by Saturn.
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2004, 11:30:35 PM »
Hum,
the word on the street is that the latest weather reports from Australia indicate that the 70 meter dish at Canberra may have to be stowed away due to high winds.
(This antenna is the only one on NASA's Deep Space Network sensitive enough to detect the signal from Cassini's signal indicating that the orbit insertion burn burn was completed successfully.)


 If the dish is not operational scientists will have to wait several more hours before contacting the spacecraft.
The orbit insertion itself will not be affected in any way.


The  an - ti  -  ci  - pa  - tion....

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Re: Cassini Flies by Saturn.
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2004, 02:38:15 AM »
Hum,
Cassini will use its antenna dish like a Spartan hoplite shield (i.e.. Leonidas), unfortunately that only leaves the small low gain dish free & pointing at the earth...
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Re: Cassini Flies by Saturn.
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2004, 06:22:02 PM »
Hum,
Sry about the `that` link (i put it  there just to give some info on the phalanx and hoplites)
And the film was `epic`....
All that rippling muscle  and sweaty torsos...





[No one really likes the spartans anyway]


Anyway congratulations to the cassini team... :-)