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Jan 10 2007, 09:47 PM
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Feb 27 2007, 02:10 AM
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In the latest PI perspective, Alan Stern comments about the Boeing Star-48 upper booster stage which is cruising along on a similar trajectory to New Horizons. I wonder if there is any possibility of spotting this from New Horizons. It just brings to my mind one of the experiments proposed to study the pioneer anomaly, where an actively controlled and communicating mother spaceship travels along with a free-floating test mass. Since there are no active propulsion or thermal systems on the test mass, a large category of the mundane explanations for the anomaly are ruled out in studying the test mass's motion. Most likely the Star-48 stage is unsuitable for this purpose, but I wonder... :^)
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