[sci.astro] Pioneer 10 Update - 11/02/90

baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) (11/06/90)

                        Pioneer 10 Status Report
                          November 2, 1990

     On October 26, the 70 meter antenna at Goldstone had difficulty
acquiring telemetry from the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, reason unknown.  Telemetry
lock was eventually achieved with a 27 minute outage.  The propellant tank
pressure telemetry point began to toggle between 198.0 and 188.8 psi on
October 15.  This is only a 1 data number range.  At this time the pressure
reading is still toggling but remains at 188.8 psi for the majority of the
data samples.
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schaper@pnet51.orb.mn.org (S Schaper) (11/08/90)

occultation?  :-)   ??
Zeitgeist Busters!

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