cassini program tonight

["Michael C. Baker" <mcbaker@lanl.gov>]

For those of you following the Cassini debate this info was put out 
to LANL employees today.

Mike Baker ... mcbaker@lanl.gov

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Discovery Channel to air segment on LANL technology onboard Cassini

Los Alamos technology onboard the Cassini spacecraft will be featured 
in a segment scheduled to be broadcast tonight on cable television's 
Discovery Channel. Laboratory scientists led the development of two 
scientific sensors that will provide key measurements of the space 
environment around Saturn when the Cassini spacecraft reaches the ringed 
planet in 2004.

Lab scientists also developed and manufactured the heat sources for 
Cassini's radioisotopic thermoelectric generators, which use heat from 
the decay of plutonium-238 to generate electricity, and other heat 
sources that warm critical spacecraft components.

The Discover News show airs at 7 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time (MDT). It 
is rebroadcast at 11 a.m. Saturday and 10:30 a.m. Sunday.


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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Phone: (505) 667-7334
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