NASA Revamps Historic 4-Million-kg Mars Antenna 66
coondoggie writes NASA is working on some difficult renovations to reinvigorate its 70-meter-wide 'Mars antenna.' The antenna, a key cog in NASA's Deep Space Network, needs about $1.25M worth of what NASA calls major, delicate surgery. The revamp calls for lifting the antenna — about 4 million kilograms of finely tuned scientific instruments — to a height of about 5 millimeters so workers can replace the steel runner, walls and supporting grout."
iPhone (Score:3, Insightful)
What the hell does this have to do with the iPhone and its antenna?
Dear Journalists,
Referencing anything to do with the iPhone in an attempt to sound hip and relevant just makes you look stupid.
Signed,
Blhack
The Gordon Freeman Method (Score:3, Insightful)
Might I suggest a crowbar. That's what I used for all my scientific research in Half Life. You could probably use one to lift the thing up a few millimeters.
Just Goldstone is Being Worked On? (Score:4, Insightful)
So they're only revamping one out of three of the 70-m DSN antennae? I hope that they plan to do Canberra and Madrid, too. You need all three of them to get good 24-hr coverage. Actually, we need more of them. There are just too many missions needing 70-m time to downlink data right now. And nothing was sadder than watching good observations (which were otherwise totally possible) get killed because some other mission had priority on the big dishes.
Re:In other news, Apple is happy. (Score:3, Insightful)
That was a really stupid quote too:
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Re:Just Goldstone is Being Worked On? (Score:4, Insightful)