Someone forgot to turn on Channel A on Titan!

Its just one of those stories you don't want to hear!

David Atkinson spent 18 years designing an experiment for the unmanned space mission to Saturn. Now some pieces of it are lost in space. Someone forgot to turn on the instrument Atkinson needed to measure the winds on Saturn's largest moon.

"The story is actually fairly gruesome," the University of Idaho scientist said in an e-mail from Germany, the headquarters of the European Space Agency. "It was human error - the command to turn the instrument on was forgotten."

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Poor guy!

Seanie

but at least all is not lost.

Apparently ground based telescopes here on earth picked up the signal and theyll be able to piece it together.......

But that data will be available given the global response of radio astronomers to Huygens, said Leonid Gurvits, head of the team that coordinated the 18 primary telescopes in Australia, China, Japan, the United States and Europe. "We will get the same scientific result, it will just take a little longer," Gurvits said

phew

I think he came across as very calm considerng what happened, I'd be after someones neck :x