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Article #8386Re: Transmitter failure on Phobos II
From: Steve Masticola
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1989 15:05
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1989 15:05
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Kevin S. Van Horn writes: >>The USSR's Phobos II probe to Mars has suffered a "major hardware problem" with its communications, according to both Defense Daily and Soviet >>Areospace (Jan. 9th). [...] > Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I can't help but wonder if Phobos I and Phobos II are in fact doing fine and the Soviets are only claiming failures so that they don't have to share the information from them with anyone. Does anyone have any information that would either > support or discredit this idea? NASA made a search for Phobos II with the Deep Space Network and found nothing. Besides, unless the data they'd acquire was more valuable in some way than the publicity they'd get from the success of the probe, I can't see any reason to conceal the data from anyone. - Steve (masticol@paul.rutgers.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ucsd!rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!masticol From: masticol@paul.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Transmitter failure on Phobos II Message-ID: <Jan.26.10.05.42.1989.22788@paul.rutgers.edu> Date: 26 Jan 89 15:05:43 GMT References: <8901250634.AA26978@ll-vlsi.arpa> <9265@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 18