In article .com,
writes:

Communications satellite fails:

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11986013^401,00.html

http://www.spacetoday.net/Summary/2750


Prof spends 18 years on experiment that goes to Saturn, somebody
forgets to turn it on:

Oh, my, Professor Goddard, WHAT would you have the Euro space
folks DO?

Lend them a hand with your vast spacecraft experience! [even the
half-vast will do because you have so much of it]

Tsk. Did the Nun of the Above fail to read the latest IEEE
Spectrum? The one featuring the Gravity Probe B instrumentation
and successful on-going flight? They have the world's most
precision gyroscopes on board.

No? Aren't you a working professional in electronics engineering?
The SPECTRUM is the membership magazine of the IEEE, the
Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers. I read it free as
I am a Life Member of the IEEE (Life Members of IEEE don't have
to pay any dues or any one-time charges).

Well, then, you must not have seen the well-publicized pictures
of the Huygens. They were in the major newspapers.

http://apnews.myway.com//article/200...D87O3NAO0.html
"Nobody's Perfect!"

So, you "write off" yet-another spectacular space probe because
one part of it did not function correctly? Tsk. What do you have
to say of the TWO Mars Rovers still exploring the Martian surface?
I'd say that NASA is doing splendidly in the so-far-longest-delay
telecommand "radio control" of those two rovers. You don't say
squat.

Are you ****ed that NASA doesn't use "CW" for radio comms?
Is that it?

Maybe you should instruct them to use a microphone in series
with a transmitter lead line, like your idle, Reggie Fessenden.
Gosh, what a clever method. Was that AM method adopted by
anyone else for voice transmission? No? How could they fail to
do so? Everyone else must be stupid, right? You tellum.



Posted 22 Jan 05