• 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.