Re: First Close Encounter of Saturn's Hazy Moon Titan

From: Aidan Karley (aidan_at_mynameplus1.demon.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 16:00:31 GMT

In article <g8rfo0hcq3fuu1n48ivu5tej05prc6nf5h@4ax.com>, Robert
Hartwick wrote:
> I can see how accelerometers might be difficult to test in the
> assembly room.
>
       Standard build testing includes putting the satellite (*any*
satellite) onto a shaking table designed to mimic the vibration of
launch. If they didn't take this as an opportunity to check the
accelerometers, then that's designed-in incompetence. But if the
accelerometers were designed to indicate the magnitude of acceleration,
but not the direction, then this wouldn't have helped. 

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 Aidan Karley,
 Aberdeen, Scotland,
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