To: Red Badger
lost contact with the craft last week after engineers "inadvertently caused the craft to turn its antenna 2 degrees away from the direction of its home planet." If this is the truth, I have to wonder how the craft got the antenna realigned.
If it was enough to lose contavct, it wouldn't receive a new command to realign.
Unless separate transmit and receive antennas that are not slaved.
9 posted on
08/03/2023 12:49:47 PM PDT by
grobdriver
(The CDC can KMA!)
To: grobdriver
If this is the truth, I have to wonder how the craft got the antenna realigned. I was wondering that, too.
22 posted on
08/03/2023 1:38:19 PM PDT by
TangoLimaSierra
(⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
To: grobdriver
The original programing was such that an error of this nature would self correct. It is programed to realign every two weeks if contact is lost.
Those engineers (now mostly dead) knew what they were doing 45 years ago.
25 posted on
08/03/2023 1:50:41 PM PDT by
cpdiii
(cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-geologist- instructor pilot-almost chemist-pharmacist-retired.)
To: grobdriver
There have been ways to design antennas to self-realign for years. I used to work on one device that auto-aligned periscopes to targets. Designed back in the 60s.
29 posted on
08/03/2023 4:02:04 PM PDT by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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