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To: Moonman62; BenLurkin

So if they are not going to fire the main engine does that mean the spacecraft will remain in Jupiter’s orbit for the rest of its life?


5 posted on 02/20/2017 6:00:34 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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So if they are not going to fire the main engine does that mean the spacecraft will remain in Jupiter’s orbit for the rest of its life?

They had planned to put it on a collision course with Jupiter so that it could never crash into one of the Jovian moons.

This was to prevent any chance of contamination by organisms of Terran origin.

7 posted on 02/20/2017 6:25:29 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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