kwan@smeagol.UUCP (Richard Kwan) (02/24/86)
> One source mentions plans for a Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar to be launched > in the late 80's and equipped with synthetic aperture radar, capable of > resolving to 100m at the planet surface. I haven't heard anything about > it recently, so I assume it is dead. Well, we have been delayed by the loss of the Challenger, but we're not dead yet. The Venus Radar Mapper, now renamed Magellan, is a close relative of the Galileo spacecraft. (In fact, parts of Magellan will be built from Galileo spares.) Launch date: some time after Galileo (which is now set for June 1987). -- Rick Kwan JPL Spacecraft Data Systems sdcrdcf!smeagol!kwan (UUCP) ia-sun2!smeagol!kwan@csvax.caltech.EDU (ARPA) -------------------------------------------------------------------- "...jumpin' into hyperspace ain't like dustin' crops, boy." H. Solo --------------------------------------------------------------------
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (02/26/86)
> Well, we have been delayed by the loss of the Challenger, but we're > not dead yet. The Venus Radar Mapper, now renamed Magellan, is a close > relative of the Galileo spacecraft. (In fact, parts of Magellan will > be built from Galileo spares.) > > Launch date: some time after Galileo (which is now set for June 1987). Last I heard the future of Magellan wasn't 100% clear, because those Galileo spares will remain Galileo spares (as opposed to Magellan parts) until Galileo is launched. Or has this changed? -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
earle@smeagol.UUCP (Greg Earle) (03/04/86)
> > Well, we have been delayed by the loss of the Challenger, but we're > > not dead yet. The Venus Radar Mapper, now renamed Magellan, is a close > > relative of the Galileo spacecraft. (In fact, parts of Magellan will > > be built from Galileo spares.) > > > > Launch date: some time after Galileo (which is now set for June 1987). > > Last I heard the future of Magellan wasn't 100% clear, because those > Galileo spares will remain Galileo spares (as opposed to Magellan parts) > until Galileo is launched. Or has this changed? No, it hasn't changed. The Galileo spares are not being released to VRM until further notice. The Lab Test Set (that is worked on by the Spacecraft Data Systems group, of which Rick Kwan [who posted the original article] and I are members) is scheduled to ship to Martin Marietta in April. The LTS tests the Command Data Subsystem (CDS) of the spacecraft, and follows it right up to the launch site. Launch is still (hopefully) scheduled for 1988 or so. (Fingers crossed :@) I believe I mentioned this (re: spares not being released to VRM) a while back in a posting about Galileo's current status. I wonder if it got out!?!? -- Greg Earle JPL Spacecraft Data Systems group sdcrdcf!smeagol!earle (UUCP) ia-sun2!smeagol!earle@csvax.caltech.edu (ARPA)