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Nature 457, 26 (1 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/457026c; Published online 31 December 2008

Honeybee and the Phoenix analysing instrument

William V. Boynton1

  1. TEGA instrument lead, Department of Planetary Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
    Email: wboynton@lpl.arizona.edu

In the News Feature 'Phoenix: a race against time' (Nature 456, 690–695; 2008) you report on a problem that stopped the doors to the ovens on the Phoenix spacecraft's Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) instrument from opening fully. You note that the University of Arizona team responsible for TEGA noticed the door interference problem during engineering tests and sent revised designs to Honeybee Robotics of New York, but that Honeybee Robotics sent back new parts using the "original flawed designs".

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