“When you get below a certain level you have concerns about overheating the spacecraft or potentially breaking pieces of it off.”
Richard Cook
“When you get below a certain level you have concerns about overheating the spacecraft or potentially breaking pieces of it off,”
“This was a great dress rehearsal for the Io encounters. We've been wondering how the spacecraft might hold up when it gets close to Io. This latest brush with radiation makes us think that the odds of survival may be fairly good.”
Jim Erickson
“Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor”
Werner von Braun
“Ask ten engineers for the best orbit for a particular spacecraft and you'll get ten different ideas.”
Dario Izzo
“We are totally prepared, both for if everything goes perfectly and if the spacecraft acts up a little bit.”
Tom Duxbury
“There are three kinds of solar wind. The spacecraft was able to move the collection panels in and out to get data from different types. We've already analyzed noble gases [helium, neon and argon], as they are not too sensitive to this type of contamination. We want to measure the ratios of isotopes of elements from the Sun's surface, and we now have direct data. We're getting interesting and important results even at this early stage.”
Don Burnett
