• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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      9 months ago

      Still very impressive regardless of who did it. Its original mission plan was for a little over 3 years but it worked for 46 years!

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        9 months ago

        14-15x operational plan isn’t unheard of. The Mars Ingenuity helicopter outperformed by that much as well.

        Done right, engineering does very much resemble magic.