Boris Smeds ... discovered in early 2000 that Cassini's receiver was in danger of scrambling Huygens's data beyond recognition. ... he and his allies battled bureaucracy and disbelief to push through a test program tough enough to reveal the existence of Cassini-Huygens's communications problem. In doing so, Smeds continued a glorious engineering tradition of rescuing deep-space missions from doom with sheer persistence, insight, and lots of improvisation.
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