Re: Galileo's high-gain antenna still stuck

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 00:17

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In article <93Jan03.000619.18712@acs.ucalgary.ca> jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell) writes:
>... If the HGA is freed, allowing the high speed
>transmission, will the compression still be used (hopefully with
>'a higher Q value') so that even _more_ data than anticipated in
>the original mission plan be returned?

The on-board computers don't have the horsepower to do serious compression
at 100-odd kbps.
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