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    NFB Cassini

    I don't know how many of you are interested in the cosmos, but today was an exciting day if you do. I personally have been following this pretty closely now for over a year, and today was the day....the Cassini-Huygenes was a combined effort from the European space agency (ESA), the italian space agency, and NASA to go to saturn, orbit it for 4 years, and send a probe (Huygenes) to Saturn's largest moon...titan. Today we landed on titan, and i've already seen a couple pictures and they are amazing. The reason why titan is so interesting is becasuse it's the only known body other than earth with a dense atmosphere comprised mainly of nitrogen...the possible origins of earth.

    Titan is roughly 950 million miles from earth, and we actually landed on it, recorded data, took pictures, and captured audio....an amazing engineering feet if you ask me.

    For more info

    http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm

    It's pretty slow today, im assuming many people are on it.
    The NASA home page, and ESA home page also both have good info.
    black 95 t/a, a4, beefed up tranny w/ higher stall converter, transgo shift kit, trans temp gauge, trans cooler, richmond 3.73's, loudmouth, hypertech programmer, 160 thermo, descreened maf, TB bypass and airfoil, trick flow intake elbow, underdrive pulleys, moroso cai, edelbrock panhard rod, bmr stb, slp sfc's, fiberglass firehawk hood, hawk pads, taylor wires, ngk plugs, royal purple fluids,...and hopefully more to come
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    Yes I worked on this program. Here is a page from our web site. http://www.emsstg.com/special%5Ffeatures/cassini.asp
    2002 Electron Blue Vette, 1SC, FE3/Z51, G92 3.15 gears, 308.9 RWHP 321.7 RWTQ (before any mods), SLP headers, Z06 exhaust, MSD Ignition Wires, AC Delco Iridium Spark Plugs, 160 t-stat, lots of ECM tuning

    1995 Z28, many mods, SOLD

    A proud member of the "F-Body Dirty Dozen"

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      I saw this on the news and they said that we landed on a ring of saturn.
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      • #4
        Originally posted by Jeff 95 Z28
        Yes I worked on this program. Here is a page from our web site. http://www.emsstg.com/special%5Ffeatures/cassini.asp
        Wow, that's awesome that you and your company were a part in that. It was good to hear that the huygens mission was a success. If you don't mind me asking cause I'm just too curious, what exactly did you do on that project?
        black 95 t/a, a4, beefed up tranny w/ higher stall converter, transgo shift kit, trans temp gauge, trans cooler, richmond 3.73's, loudmouth, hypertech programmer, 160 thermo, descreened maf, TB bypass and airfoil, trick flow intake elbow, underdrive pulleys, moroso cai, edelbrock panhard rod, bmr stb, slp sfc's, fiberglass firehawk hood, hawk pads, taylor wires, ngk plugs, royal purple fluids,...and hopefully more to come

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        • #5
          Originally posted by 95TransAm
          Wow, that's awesome that you and your company were a part in that. It was good to hear that the huygens mission was a success. If you don't mind me asking cause I'm just too curious, what exactly did you do on that project?
          This project was done in the early 90's. It was launched in 1997. I was in the machine shop at the time doing CAM work (Computer Aided Manufacturing). I took the 3D CAD models and put tool path to them for the CNC machining centers. When you make an electrical circuit you use wires and you switch with a toggle switch. When you make a microwave current you use what we call waveguide which is a square tube sized to the wave height to match the frequency that you are at. To switch them you use magnets. The polarity of the magnets determines which way the energy goes out of the switch. You can see the waveguide runs and the switches in the pictures at that link I posted.

          I've had something to do with a lot of interesting projects from the B2, B52, F16, F22, Space Shuttle, the Space Station, many satellites, to the Phalanx gatling gun that goes on Navy ships.
          2002 Electron Blue Vette, 1SC, FE3/Z51, G92 3.15 gears, 308.9 RWHP 321.7 RWTQ (before any mods), SLP headers, Z06 exhaust, MSD Ignition Wires, AC Delco Iridium Spark Plugs, 160 t-stat, lots of ECM tuning

          1995 Z28, many mods, SOLD

          A proud member of the "F-Body Dirty Dozen"

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          • #6
            That's got to be pretty amazing to sit back, see all these engineering accomplishments, witness new technilogical advancements, exploring new bodies in the universe, and say that you were in some way a part of it all.

            Things like that have always fascinated me, and my dream one day is to be a part of these types of advancements in one way or another. Keep up the good work
            black 95 t/a, a4, beefed up tranny w/ higher stall converter, transgo shift kit, trans temp gauge, trans cooler, richmond 3.73's, loudmouth, hypertech programmer, 160 thermo, descreened maf, TB bypass and airfoil, trick flow intake elbow, underdrive pulleys, moroso cai, edelbrock panhard rod, bmr stb, slp sfc's, fiberglass firehawk hood, hawk pads, taylor wires, ngk plugs, royal purple fluids,...and hopefully more to come

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            • #7
              Originally posted by 95TransAm
              That's got to be pretty amazing to sit back, see all these engineering accomplishments, witness new technilogical advancements, exploring new bodies in the universe, and say that you were in some way a part of it all.

              Things like that have always fascinated me, and my dream one day is to be a part of these types of advancements in one way or another. Keep up the good work
              Yea it's kind of neat. I regret that I did not go into the Air Force but I feel like I can make a considerable contribution to our country in what I do. I can help our military do their jobs and survive. We make the IFF antenna for the F16. We make the radar jammer on the B52. We make the switching network in the Milstar satellite that the military commander use in the field. I believe one of the guys on this board may use them in his job. I can't remember his name. [edit, his profile name is Camaro4-2] He's stationed down in Ft. Walton. We are making the RF antenna for the new missile to replace the AIM7 Sidewinder, AIM120 AMRAAM, and the hellfire. When this goes online, a pilot will not have to choose which type of missile he will load on his plane depending on his mission. Now he will load just one type and he can take on anything. That's pretty cool.

              To think that something I made is so many million miles away orbiting another planet in our solar system is just amazing. We had something on the satellite that was orbiting Jupiter until it ran out of fuel and they drove it into the Jupiter atmosphere to keep it from contaminating something else.
              2002 Electron Blue Vette, 1SC, FE3/Z51, G92 3.15 gears, 308.9 RWHP 321.7 RWTQ (before any mods), SLP headers, Z06 exhaust, MSD Ignition Wires, AC Delco Iridium Spark Plugs, 160 t-stat, lots of ECM tuning

              1995 Z28, many mods, SOLD

              A proud member of the "F-Body Dirty Dozen"

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