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From: kwan@smeagol.UUCP (Richard Kwan)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: No, we're still going to Venus
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Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 19:36:17 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 23 19:36:17 1986
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>    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).


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		Rick Kwan
		JPL Spacecraft Data Systems
		sdcrdcf!smeagol!kwan (UUCP)
		ia-sun2!smeagol!kwan@csvax.caltech.EDU (ARPA)
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