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From: earle@smeagol.UUCP (Greg Earle)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: No, we're still going to Venus
Message-ID: <620@smeagol.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 18:23:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 18:23:34 1986
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Organization: Spacecraft Data Systems, JPL, Pasadena, CA
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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?

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)