[extropy-chat] Pluto New Horizons launch -getting ready

[Russell Wallace]

On 2/20/06, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hmmm, tape surely wouldn't hold up at these temperatures (45-50K
> range).  I
> would think it would be not flexible enough.  I suppose they could warm it
> with waste heat from the RTG.  Lockmart built the booster and the RTG, but
> I
> don't think we did the probe itself.
>

I believe most of the earlier probes, including the Voyagers, used tape,
with the RTG keeping the whole thing warm enough to function. New Horizons
uses solid state memory.

- Russell
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