Dr. L. Popken's analytical model enabled the remote correction of a critical communication error.
| Date | Contributor | Description | Rating |
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| 6 Jul 2009 | Linda Webb |
"On January 14, 2005, one engineer watched nervously as a probe named Huygens began its descent toward Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Like many of his colleagues on the joint European Space Agency (ESA)-NASA program, systems engineer Luitjens Popken had worked for years to ensure the success of the Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons. Just weeks before, the Cassini spacecraft had ejected the Huygens probe, sending it coasting toward a parachute landing on Titan to provide scientists with detailed information and dramatic photos of the moon's atmosphere and surface."
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| Tag | Applied By | Date/Time |
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| whitepaper | Linda Webb | 6 Jul 2009 at 10:35am |
| titan | Linda Webb | 6 Jul 2009 at 10:35am |
| saturn | Linda Webb | 6 Jul 2009 at 10:35am |
| paper | Linda Webb | 6 Jul 2009 at 10:35am |
| nasa | Linda Webb | 6 Jul 2009 at 10:35am |
| huygens | Linda Webb | 6 Jul 2009 at 10:35am |
| esa | Linda Webb | 6 Jul 2009 at 10:35am |
| doppler | Linda Webb | 6 Jul 2009 at 10:35am |
| cassini | Linda Webb | 6 Jul 2009 at 10:35am |
| article | Linda Webb | 6 Jul 2009 at 10:35am |