Are they ring-laser gyro IMUs, or are they mechanical?

Let see what technology would be winner: Solar panel or Fuel Cells.

Isn't there a big Apple conference next month? I might see what happens there.

It seems pretty slick to me but could be problematic for those on dial-up connections.

how long does Spitzer have before it starts warming up?

These CRISM measurements are the first spectral measurements to resolve the disk of Deimos, and the first of this part of Phobos to cover the full wavelength range needed to assess the presence of iron-, water-, and carbon-containing minerals.

Yeah, I knew that; wasn't the guy who found that Italian?

Gorlova and her colleagues looked for the dusty signs of similar smash-ups around 400 stars that are all about 30 million years old - roughly the age of our sun when Earth's moon formed. They found that only 1 out of the 400 stars is immersed in the telltale dust. Taking into consideration the amount of time the dust should stick around, and the age range at which moon-forming collisions can occur, the scientists then calculated the probability of a solar system making a moon like Earth's to be at most 5 to 10 percent.

You simply need to design a vehicle that will do an orbit trim maneuver or two every orbit. Just a 1/2 km tweek... just keep it circular within a small amount.

Since the heaters cut in last winter there is a high probability that they will do so again. Anyone have any knowledge as to the power draw for these heaters?

As for array deployment problems, I don't think it is a good apples to apples comparison to bring up the ISS troubles. Those arrays are huge, and involve a huge number of folds.

I had seen the thread, but didn't advance enough in reading it to notice the transmission curves of the Galileo. On the internet, I read that the Galileo SSI is really a modified Voyager camera with similar filters.