Re: Pluto Flyby

From: John Savard (jsavard_at_excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:23:38 GMT

On 27 Aug 2004 07:10:06 -0700, thomsona@flash.net (Allen Thomson) wrote,
in part:

>Or do they just want to be able to use as much of the available
>power for data transmission at Pluto as possible?

I would suspect that. The spacecraft doesn't have much to remember on
the way out.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html

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