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Pioneer 10 loses three instruments after Jupiter encounter
Mountain View AP reports the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, now radioactively fraught after its Jupiter flyby, is missing function in three of its 11 instruments. A brushed control button caused data loss but backups saved the record. At 81,000 miles past Jupiter the craft faced radiation far above Earth levels, darkening the asteroid-meteor detector’s glass and triggering false image commands. NASA weighs altering Pioneer 11’s Jupiter approach versus a pole pass or redirect toward Saturn.
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