http://www.metafilter.com/tags/spaceexlploration Posts tagged with 'spaceexlploration' at MetaFilter. Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:44:56 -0800 Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:44:56 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/38126/WHAT%2DTHE%2DFUCK%2DKEYSER <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-122404.html">The European Space Agency's Huygens probe successfully detached</a> from NASA's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini-Huygens">Cassini orbiter</a> today to begin a three-week journey to Saturn's moon <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28moon%29">Titan</a>. NASA's <a href="http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/">Deep Space Network</a> tracking stations in Madrid, Spain, and Goldstone, Calif., received the signal at 7:24 p.m. (PST). All systems performed as expected and there were no problems reported with the Cassini spacecraft. There was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini-Huygens#A_critical_design_flaw">very real</a> probability it would have never have happened if it weren't for the persistence of a <a href="http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/oct04/1004titan.html">swedish engineer</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.38126 Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:44:56 -0800 cassini cassiniorbiter europeanspaceagency huygens huygensprobe nasa space spaceexlploration titan Keyser Soze