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Triumph at Saturn (Part I)

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory · Youtube · 101 HN points · 1 HN comments
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Chronicling the story of NASA’s Cassini mission, this is the latest in our series of documentaries, “JPL and the Space Age.” These films use rare archival footage and interviews with pioneering engineers and scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in retelling the stories of many of humanity’s first steps into the cosmos.

Part I of this two-part story will premiere here on Oct. 15, 2021 at 3 p.m. Pacific time; part II will premiere here at the same time on Oct. 22: https://youtu.be/oGsajLIALJE.

Other films in this series are available for viewing at https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/who-we-are/documentary-series-jpl-and-the-space-age. “Triumph at Saturn” is planned to be added to this collection in the near future.
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Oct 21, 2021 · 99 points, 11 comments · submitted by l0b0
networkimprov
Great story of "market-based" engineering management & collaboration, where different teams could trade resources (in multiple categories) with other teams to optimize each component while staying in-bounds with the mission requirements.
TaylorAlexander
Certainly a good example of the strategic use of markets as a tool, mixed with a whole lot of planning.
dvh
The grand finale: https://youtu.be/xrGAQCq9BMU
codewiz
It always makes me cry...
EastOfTruth
Today I learn that a ring scientist is a thing...
paulsmith
Raise your hand if your digitally scanned signature is on the CD-ROM they placed onboard Cassini.
noman-land
Lucky
tppiotrowski
Didn’t it burn up in Saturn’s atmosphere?
fractalb
Maybe the software world can learn something about planning long and planning ahead
noisy_boy
For typical software, there is no point. A satellite can travel for decades and provide invaluable data with the software side focus being mainly maintenance and keeping it going (+ maintaining a piece of electronics millions of miles away moving at thousands of miles per hours is pretty much a unique challenge). Typical CRUD applications get continuous changes/modifications, bugs are not catastrophic and the applications themselves routinely get replaced as part of the evolving architecture. Putting the kind of testing and effort done for Aerospace for such applications would be a waste of effort. Of course like everything else, there is software and there is software. Software used in nuclear plants don't see such velocity of change + the impact of things going wrong would be catastrophic - that can definitely do with such rigour.
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leoc
Part 2: https://youtu.be/oGsajLIALJE
Oct 18, 2021 · 2 points, 0 comments · submitted by sohkamyung
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