[Ezekiel]

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NASA Science Live webcast (Jan 31, 2024):

NASA Science Live: Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Tribute & Legacy

[Steely Tom]

Lotta wiggle room on Mars.

[Yo-Yo]

[Red Badger]

[cyclotic]

Some of that stuff is amazing. My son works at NASA. One of the missions he worked on was a solar observation satellite. A few years into the mission, a gyroscope malfunctioned and the solar array turned away from the sun, causing it to go dormant.

For quite a while, several years I think, they periodically checked at and one day found out there was enough energy to push it back into the correct orbit.

It was supposed to be a two year mission that was launched the week my 27 year old son was born. It’s still operational.