<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><div>On Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:40 AM spike <spike@rainier66.com> wrote:</div><div>>> Yeah, I should've read you second post before responding to your</div><div>>> first. The incident reported now is one wheel is not working,</div><div>>> but this was already after losing another. (The first one went</div><div>>> bad last July.)</div><div>></div><div>> Ja I should have read the article before I commented. I had</div><div>> heard they went into safe mode but I hadn’t heard it was the second</div><div>> wheel. Momentum wheels shouldn’t fail.</div><div><br></div><div>Who should report those wheels to for failing? :) Kidding aside, though, they had an extra one because, no doubt, the expected failure. They just didn't expect this level of failure (but see my final paragraph
below).</div><div><br></div><div>> Ball Aerospace is going to</div><div>> take a big hit over this, Goodrich is going to take a bigger hit for</div><div>> it, sheesh damn.</div><div><br></div><div>It might be too early to tell, but Ball's stock doesn't appear to be taking much of a hit. (How could one be sure, if their stock plummeted, that this was behind it?)</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">And didn't UT buy up Goodrich?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">I believe, too, the probe was in its extended mission phase. Anyhow, maybe they'll fix the
problem or find a workaround. I wonder how good the data are without the level of precision from three wheels. Anyhow, more planet-hunting missions on the way. Heck, if launch costs drop a lot (because of SpaceX and Orbital Sciences hacking away at big aerospace), maybe it'll be a golden age for space science.</div></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Regards,<br><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Dan<br> See my SF short story "Residue":<br>http://www.amazon.com/Residue-ebook/dp/B00BS3T0RM/ -- US<br>http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BS3T0RM -- UK<br>http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00BS3T0RM -- Canada<br> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div
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