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Dimensions
(booms stowed)
Length

Width

Height

3.2 m

3.3 m

2.1 m

Mass Total at launch

Scientific payload

Payload cover ejected

Initial fuel (hydrazine)

Fuel at May 2002

366.7 kg

55.1 kg

0.1 kg

33.5 kg

8.4 kg

Stabilization Spin-stabilized

5 rpm

Power Radio-isotope thermoelectric generator (RTG)

Beginning of mission

December 1997

 

283 W

232 W

Communications X-band downlink

S-band uplink/downlink

20 W

5 W

Communications
antennas

Parabolic high gain
2 low gains

1.65 m


Maximum telemetry
rates
Real-time

Recorded

1024 bps

512 bps

Booms Radial dipole antenna

Axial monopole antenna

Radial magnetometer boom

72.5 m

7.5 m

5.6 m

 
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