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"Weary of rapid shuttle launches, the decision was made to launch Magellan in May, and into an orbit that would require 1 year and 3 months before encountering Venus."
The subject of the sentence is "the decision". The adjective "weary" modifies the subject. However, presumably the decision is not weary. Was NASA weary? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.128.246.32 (talk) 04:07, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
The article doesn't mention whether the ultimate crash of the probe was intentional. Does anyone know? --Doradus 18:19, August 10, 2005 (UTC)
There was no mention of the effect of ice cream on the Magellan team.
The first line of the Spacecraft design section states "Built largely from spare parts from both the Voyager and Galileo missions, the Magellan spacecraft was 4.6 metres (15.4 feet) long, topped with a 3.7 m (12 ft)." My question is, a 3.7 m what? My guess would be antenna but it would be better if someone who knows for sure could fix it. -Nibios 17:32, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
The first line says Magellan was the "first unmanned spacecraft to be launched by NASA since its successful Voyager 1 spacecraft to Jupiter and Saturn in 1977".. I would be inclined to think this means 'first unmanned INTERPLANETARY spacecraft', since there have obviously been numerous other satellites launched by NASA in that period. Random Tree (talk) 19:53, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I thought the same, but this is also not the case as Pioneer Venus Orbiter was launched in 1978. I searched through the Category:Years in space exploration, there's not another USA i/p probe (at least in there) 1978-1989, so maybe we should correct the phrase to "first unmanned interplanetary spacecraft to be launched by NASA since its Pioneer Venus Orbiter to Venus in 1978" - Badseed (talk) 22:15, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Ah, thanks for looking that up. That phrasing sounds good to me. Random Tree (talk) 19:41, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
The phrase "synthetic aperture radar" is a common noun, even though its abbreviation is SAR. Such things are actually quite common in English, and especially in technical English. For example "central processing unit" is abbreviated CPU, and ribonucleic acid is abbreviated RNA, and instrument landing system is abbreviated ILS.98.67.163.247 (talk) 02:31, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
The use of the unfamiliar "units" gal and milligal is unnecessary and uncalled for. This is especially true since 1.0 gal equals 0.01 meters per second per second = 0.01 meter/sec^2. Just express everything in terms of meter/sec^2.
All this "unit" is is shifting of the decimal point by two places.
The "gal" is as unnecessary as the Angstrom unit, where 10 angstroms = 1.0 nanometer. The "gal" is as unnecessary as the "franklin", where 1.0 franklin = 1.0 statcoulombs, and the statcoulomb is not used very much, anyway.47.215.188.197 (talk) 16:55, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
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Infobox entry for semimajor axis of orbit[edit]I just changed the number here for the orbit semimajor axis to 10470 km from something slightly larger than 7700 km. The old value was clearly a mistake. This new value is not directly attributable to a source; rather, it is the average of periapse and apoapse altitudes from further down in the box, plus the planetary radius of 6050 km. This new number works with the given orbital period and the mass quoted for Venus using Kepler's 3rd Law. A more definitive number and citation need to be found and put here. BSVulturis (talk) 20:59, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
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