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PASADENA, Calif. — Voyager
2 developed a mysterious problem
today that froze its cameras in a
useless position pointing to outer
space, marring what had been a
perfect encounter with Saturn
Tuesday night.
NASA engineers hoped to cor
rect the problem but could not say
immediately whether they could
nor how long it would take.
But Jet Propulsion Laboratory
spokesman Frank Bristow said
that given the time needed to
analyze the problem, and the
three-hour time period needed to
get a radio signal across a billion
miles of space and a return signal
to earth, it appeared “this will take
at least all day.”
The spacecraft continued on
course and most other instru
ments continued working, but the
camera malfunction meant “we
are losing pictures in real time,
pictures we cannot replace, ” Bris
tow said.
The spacecraft had already re
turned 10,000 to 12,000 of the
scheduled 18,500 photos, Bristow
said.
The mishap also apparently re
ndered useless the infrared ultra
violet and light polarity instru
ments, which are on the same
camera platform, he said. The
spacecraft was still relatively close
to Saturn — 380,000 miles at 11
a.m. EDT — and moving away at
more than 34,000 mph, its camer
as beaming back a picture of a dark
sky surrounding what appeared to
be a single lonely star.
Optical navigators were going
to try to determine from the pic
ture the exact direction the
camera was pointing, JPL spokes
men said, but it was known that it
was stuck “away from the sun to
ward the interstellar blankness.
“We could roll the whole
spacecraft to x ealign the camera if
we had to, but we’re not going to
take a chance of worsening the
problem until we study it very
thoroughly,” Bristow said.
“This is a time for caution and
analysis before acting.” Voyager
made its closest approach to
Saturn on schedule at 11:24 EDT
Tuesday, sending back pictures
and data and then plunged behind
the planet, which blocked radio
contact with JPL for 93 minutes as
expected. Contact was reestab
lished as expected at 2:59 p.m.
EDT, but the camera problem
was not noticed for more than half
an hour when scheduled picture
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Fi.— Archer Winsten, N.Y. POST
transmissions were not received.
President Reagan’s top aide,
Edwin C. Meese, the White
House counsel, helicoptered from
the Reagan ranch, north of Santa
Barbara, for a briefing by JPL Di
rector Bruce Murray and NASA
Administrator James M. Beggs to
tell them the president was “very
much interested in continuing our
space exploration and space trans-
jxirtation systems.”
“I think you will find a very re
ceptive administration as far as
space exploration and develop
ment goes, obviously within
budget contraints,” Meese said.
But he refused to discuss specific
space programs.
At its closest, Voyager skimmed
just 62,617 miles above Saturn’s
pale yellow cloud tops, giving sci
entists their closest look ever at its
bands of cold gas storms, ripped
by 1,100 mph winds.
They appeared to be formed of
so many thousands of strands the
mission confirmed suspicions
raised by Voyager 1 the traditional
picture of a half dozen large and
separate rings has “gone by the
board,” said Dr. Bradford Smith,
imaging team leader.
Further evidence of the ham
mering taken by moons in Satum’s
crowded system was seen inc
looks at what Smith dubbed, “the
hamburger moon,” HyperionJ
discshaped object, Hyperig
orbits with its axis in an inprobable
position, suggesting it was pum
ched out of alignment in a coli
sion.
Fred Scarf, principal plasma
wave investigator, played for re
porters a recording the “sound’’of
Voyager crossing the planet’s
shock, the point in space where
the solar wind strikes the planets
magnetic field and flows aroundit
Speeded up to eight times its
real speed, the tape sounded like
the ringing of unearthly church
bells, deep gongs mixed with
higher peals rising and falling as
the spacecraft moved through the
fluctuating waves, with a deepei
insistent background note, like
the ominous shark music from the
movie “Jaws.”
Nixon’s lawyers
confirm bribe
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Former
President Richard Nixon last year
paid a fired Pentagon official
$142,000 to avoid a trial in a law
suit the ex-whistleblower brought
against him, Nixon’s lawyers con
firm.
The payment was part of an
out-of-court settlement between
Nixon and A. Ernest Fitzgerald,
who charged he was fired by Nix
on for disclosing cost overruns on
the C-5A transport plane. He had
sought $3.5 million.
Nixon’s attorneys want the
court to rule on whether he is pro
tected from suits brought for acts
he may have committed as presi
dent.
The payment to Fitzgerald be
came known earlier this month
when lawyers for former National
Security Council staffer Morton
Halperin asked the Supreme
Court to strike the case from its
docket on grounds it had been set
tled.
Halperin is suing Nixon over
wiretaps placed on his home tele
phone for 21 months in an effort to
find the source of national security
leaks, and that case is pending be
fore the high court.
Halperin’s lawyers said Nixon
“bought his way out of’ the Fitz
gerald trial with the out-of-court
settlement the court papers said
call for a payment of $142,000 and
an additional $28,000 if Nixon
does not succeed in avoiding i
trial.
Halperin and his family contend
their constitutional rights were
violated by the wiretaps — partof
a crackdown on leaks within the
Nixon administration.
InJ une, the high court upheld
Halperin’s right to sue in a Id
decision that allowed Halperin b
return to court to seek as muchai
$1.26 million in damages for viola
tions of federal wiretap laws.
Justice William Rehnquist did
not participate in the decision. He
was a Justice Department official
during the Nixon administration.
The same day the tie vote
cleared the way for Halperins
push for damages, the court
announced it would hear Nixons
claim of immunity from civil suits
in Fitzgerald’s case.
Halperin’s lawyers hope to
avoid a high-court ruling in the
Fitzgerald case because it could
lead to a decision shielding presi
dents absolutely from such suits
for damages.
Such a ruling would nullify Hal
perin’s suit and deprive him ofa
trial.
“Because of the secret agree
ment between Nixon and Fitz
gerald, it is apparent Nixons
primary interest in the instant
case is gaining a second chance at
defeating the Halperins,” Mark
Lynch, Halperin’s lawyer,
argued.
Two former CBS officials
appointed to NBC posts
United Press International
NEW YORK — Two former
CBS executives have been named
general adviser and vice chairman
for NBC, network Chairman
Grant Tinker announced.
A spokesman said the appoint
ments, announced Tuesday,
would be the last changes “for
some time” in the network’s top
management.
Richard Salant, a 27-year CBS
veteran and former CBS news
president who joined NBC in May
1979 as vice chairman of the
board, will become general advis
er to NBC management on long-
range planning and policy issues
Salant’s replacement will bf
Irwin Segelstein, who has served
as president of NBC Television
Under the new alignment
Tinker said, the business and
administration divisions of the
corporation will report to Segeh
stein while operating divisions
such as the television and radio
networks and stations would re
port to Robert Mulholland, NBC
president.
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