41. The exchange was not seen on the television image beamed to the ground because the joined spacecraft were out of communication range. 42. The Galileo spacecraft was in the right place at the right time to record the fireball hitting Jupiter. 43. The light to be studied is so faint that the spacecraft must be extraordinarily quiet, without any temperature or electrical variations. 44. The spacecraft was the attached Soyuz escape capsule. 45. The spacecraft was to provide signals for direct satellite-to-ground television for South and Central America, said Evangelista, the Intelsat spokesman. 46. The spacecraft was to reach the designated orbit nine minutes after blast-off. 47. The spacecraft is en route to an asteroid, its ion propulsion engine working well after a sluggish start. 48. The spacecraft is to begin photographing the planet from a site over its south pole Tuesday. 49. The spacecraft was able to regain power, but only after tumbling chaotically through space for several hours. 50. The spacecraft was to provide signals for direct satellite-to-ground television for South and Central America, said Evangelista. |