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From: bonin@ut-emx.UUCP (Marc Bonin)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Transmitter failure on Phobos II
Summary: Paranoia and Phobos I & II Failures
Message-ID: <9862@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 14:55:03 GMT
References: <8901250634.AA26978@ll-vlsi.arpa> <9265@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <9265@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, kevin@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Kevin S. Van Horn) writes:
> >     The USSR's Phobos II probe to Mars has suffered a "major hardware 
> >problem" with its communications, according to both Defense Daily and Soviet 
> >Areospace (Jan. 9th).  [...]
> 
> Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I can't help but wonder if Phobos I and Phobos II
> are in fact doing fine and the Soviets are only claiming failures so that they
> don't have to share the information from them with anyone. 

  I think you are being paranoid. Do you think Gorby would sacrifice all the
  limelight and prestige from the world scientific community just to jealously
  guard the data ?                     


       Marc  Bonin

      Dept. of Aerospace Engineering
      University of Texas at Austin