  Burns Fisher burns at fisher.cc Wed Aug 3 17:56:46 PDT 2011
9204 is particularly interesting.   It almost looks like
something coming chance that is an antenna stuck somewhere?  But
I'd also like to make a couple comments which are, of course,
just as much speculations as the comments that I'm trying to
refute.  First, let's talk about "breaking" the antenna.  Well,
we don't really know that.  Isn't it flexible like the 2m
antenna?  I think it was mentioned in CDR slides.  And surely we
would want it to be flexible.  After all there is one of these
sticking out on each of the two largest flat surfaces.  Chances
are good it's going to run into something sometime.  Second,
suppose it was simply not installed.  I see lots of comments
about "duh, how could you miss it not being there?".  I've
looked at a lot of pictures of this bird both pre- and post-
launch and a huge percentage of them are taken at an angle where
you can only see one antenna.  How would anyone inherently know
what this was supposed to look l