Feb 11 1992
From The Space Library
It was reported that NASA's latest effort to free a stuck main antenna aboard the Galileo space probe had failed. Galileo, en route to Jupiter for a 1995-97 mapping mission, had a smaller antenna that transmitted only 2,200 of the 50,000 hoped-for photos. (W Times, Feb 11/92; AP, Feb 10/92; USA Today, Feb 11/92)
A 15-story unmanned Atlas rocket was launched into space with a military communications satellite intended to link the White House with U.S. forces around the world during nuclear attacks or other crisis. In peacetime, the $130 million satellite was to serve as a switchboard for the Defense Department personnel. (B Sun, Feb 11/92; AP, Feb 11/92)
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