Reply to post: seems sloppy

15 years on, Euroboffins finally work out what it took to send the Huygens Titan probe into such a spin

imanidiot Silver badge
WTF?

seems sloppy

"The investigation conducted by students and interns at the Polytech Orléans and the French research laboratories LPC2E and PRISME by sending a simulation of the Huygens probe through a windtunnel."

Did nobody bother doing aerodynamic stability testing before sending it on it's way? Seems like a basic test to perform and something that SHOULD have been caught.

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