
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 - Space Daily
Galileo, NASA’s flagship mission to Jupiter, launched in 1989, and on 11 April 1991 its large high-gain antenna failed to open as commanded. The mission was not abandoned. Over the following years a workaround was built, centred on new software both on the sp…






