🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <27JAN199316252809@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:
>In article <1993Jan27.133908.16401@prime.mdata.fi>, jarnis@mits.mdata.fi (Jarno Kokko) writes...
>>Have people thought about combining hammering with the orbit insertion?
>>I think hammering when whole spacecraft is vibrating due to motor
>>firing would shake loose about anything :-) .. Or is it impossible
>>due to some minor technical detail? 
>
>I don't think that would be a wise thing to do.  The motor firing has be
>done at a precise time with the spacecraft in the proper attitude.  If the
>hammering was done during the motor firing, and the antenna was to pop
>open, it could change the spacecraft attitude enough to really mess up the
>orbit insertion.  Besides, the spacecraft will very busy as it is during
>the orbit insertion, collecting the probe data, performing a 1000 km Io flyby 
>and collecting science data on Jupiter.

I suspected that the spacecraft would be busy doing something FAR more 
important than the antenna motor hammering .. so forget that..  I guess
a VERY high rate data compression routines would be more helpful to this
mission than ideas how to open the antenna... :-)

- Jarnis