A Model Recovery: ESA Engineer Uses MATLAB to Help Save Mission to Titan

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First submitted by Linda Webb on 6 Jul 2009

Dr. L. Popken's analytical model enabled the remote correction of a critical communication error.

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6 Jul 2009	Linda Webb	"On January 14, 2005, one engineer watched nervously as a probe named Huygens began its descent toward Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Like many of his colleagues on the joint European Space Agency (ESA)-NASA program, systems engineer Luitjens Popken had worked for years to ensure the success of the Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons. Just weeks before, the Cassini spacecraft had ejected the Huygens probe, sending it coasting toward a parachute landing on Titan to provide scientists with detailed information and dramatic photos of the moon's atmosphere and surface." This article appeared in The MathWorks News & Notes, January 2006

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