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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: No, we're still going to Venus
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Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 14:16:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 26 14:16:26 1986
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> 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?
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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