JPL weighing new tape recorder anomaly on Galileo

Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are studying whether the balky tape recorder on the Galileo Jupiter orbiter can be used safely to store images of the planet and its moons after the tape stuck Jan. 18 during a test prior to playback of data from the spacecraft's atmospheric probe...

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