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One heckuva range; NASA Glenn radio technology enables craft headed toward Saturn to transmit images from more than 90 million miles.(News)(John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field)

Crain's Cleveland Business, June, 2004 by Jackson, Tom

Byline: TOM JACKSON Loud music made the phrase "Cleveland rocks'' famous, but these days the NASA Glenn Research Center is showing off a different sort of amplified power, the kind that can send a radio signal 930 million miles from Saturn to Earth. The unmanned Cassini spacecraft, the biggest, most complex interplanetary probe ever sent out by NASA, has just flown by Phoebe, one of Saturn's moons, and is beaming back photos of Phoebe using radio technology developed by NASA Glenn.

Cassini is scheduled to arrive in orbit around Saturn on July 1, and the NASA Glenn technology already has enabled the craft to beam back photos of the planet. NASA Glenn provided technical help for two traveling wave tube amplifiers that take a radio signal and boost it so that...

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