Galileo computer can store data if recorder gives problems
Engineers on the Galileo Jupiter project plan to use the memory in the spacecraft's central computer to store data collected as its probe plunges into the planet's cloud tops if they cannot fix a tape recorder, which may have failed last week. The computer can store about 500,000 bytes, enough to...
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