{"id":693,"date":"2014-01-21T17:31:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T17:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2014\/01\/21\/lunar_orbiter_image_recovery_project_loirp_status_21_january_2014\/"},"modified":"2014-01-21T17:31:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T17:31:04","slug":"lunar_orbiter_image_recovery_project_loirp_status_21_january_2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) Status 21 January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/update.3.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\"><b>Dennis Wingo: Status, afternoon January 21, 2014<\/b><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s dead Jim&#8230;.<br \/>\nThe head that is on the FR-900 right now has been running for about 150 hours. It&#8217;s tip projection is below the recommended minimum for the lunar orbiter tapes. When the Madrid ground station changed their head after M4-52 the machine quit working. After much pain and suffering and scratching of heads Ken and Terry Smith, another old hand figured out that as the tip&#8217;s wear down the velocity changes ((pi*r^2)). Due to the fact that the Lunar Orbiter tapes have a signal that must be demodulated accurate to one hertz, this presents a problem. We have quasi proved this by taking tape M4-111, the last tape for Madrid, putting it on the machine, and adjusting the tip penetration out as far as it will go. That tape is playing back.<br \/>\nHowever&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nThis won&#8217;t work for all of the tapes and thus I will now work backward from M4-111 to see how many I can get done&#8230;.<br \/>\nAs captain Taggart would say&#8230;<br \/>\nNever Give Up! Never Surrender!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Wingo: Status, afternoon January 21, 2014 It&#8217;s dead Jim&#8230;. The head that is on the FR-900 right now has been running for about 150 hours. It&#8217;s tip projection is below the recommended minimum for the lunar orbiter tapes. When the Madrid ground station changed their head after M4-52 the machine quit working. After much &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=693\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) Status 21 January 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}