The Huygens Rescue
My cover story in this month's SPECTRUM on how smart 'rocket scientists' discovered, diagnosed and repaired a fatal flaw in the Cassini-Huygens comm system:
Titan Calling -- How a Swedish engineer saved a once-in-a-lifetime mission to Saturn's mysterious moon
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/oct04/1004titan.html