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Some Italian guy did something important and he got this named after him.
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I have no clue.
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"This is brilliant! It'll save weight!"
I think that umbrella design was just a test to see if it could work. Of course, we've all got to remember that Galileo sat in storage for years due to the Challenger accident, so that was most certainly a contributing factor in the partial-deployment. Galileo to me is the robotic cousin of Apollo 13: multiple failures fixed by engineers on the fly. It's a real testament to what a good team can do to fix a problematic probe.
Also, I haven't see the umbrella-style HGA since and I think we know why.
I think that umbrella design was just a test to see if it could work. Of course, we've all got to remember that Galileo sat in storage for years due to the Challenger accident, so that was most certainly a contributing factor in the partial-deployment. Galileo to me is the robotic cousin of Apollo 13: multiple failures fixed by engineers on the fly. It's a real testament to what a good team can do to fix a problematic probe.
Also, I haven't see the umbrella-style HGA since and I think we know why.
I know I think the TDRS satellites use umbrella like communications arrays, but as you said, I think sitting in storage from 1986 to 1989 probably had the lubricants evaporate, plus the Venus, Earth, Earth, trajectory probably didn't help either, since Galileo wasn't designed for the inner solar system heat, since I heard originally they wanted to strap a Centaur motor on it and release it from the Shuttle in 1986 for a Direct flight to Jupiter.
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