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From: Marc Bonin
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1989 14:55
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1989 14:55
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In article <9265@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, kevin@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (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.
I think you are being paranoid. Do you think Gorby would sacrifice all the
limelight and prestige from the world scientific community just to jealously
guard the data ?
Marc Bonin
Dept. of Aerospace Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ucsd!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!bonin From: bonin@ut-emx.UUCP (Marc Bonin) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Transmitter failure on Phobos II Summary: Paranoia and Phobos I & II Failures Message-ID: <9862@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 26 Jan 89 14:55:03 GMT References: <8901250634.AA26978@ll-vlsi.arpa> <9265@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 20