Solar System
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Cassini: A Spacecraft That's Less Powerful Than an iPhone
Cassini is less powerful than an iPhone, it's less powerful than Robin Ince's phone. The fact that you can control that spacecraft with that accuracy is, to me, a remarkable example. And this was not a part of the mission that I was involved in. So when we first got into orbit to go six months earlier, all the eyes of the world were on me and my team because everyone was waiting for the pictures. "I didn't sleep the night before. I looked like crap in the press conference. I can barely talk," he says.
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