The engineers had to redesign the software, reprogram the tape recorder and had to get Galileo to do data compression.
"Claudia J. Alexander" (1964-), Ph.D., is a research scientist specializing in geophysics and planetary science. She is African American. She has worked for the United States Geological Survey and the NASA/National Aeronautics and Space Administration. As member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she was the last project manager of NASA's Galileo spacecraft/Galileo mission to Jupiter
[http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/galileo_finale_030921.html Journey's End: Last Gasp for Galileo] by Leonard David, Space.com, September 21, 2003 and is currently project manager and scientist of NASA's role in the European Space Agency/European led Rosetta (spacecraft)/Rosetta mission to study comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
More Claudia Alexander on Wikipedia.We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were passing through this same zone, and we got clobbered.
I will be crying because I'm sentimental. But don't tell anyone I said that!
It was a complete stretch to get it to do that, which saved the mission.
It's been a fabulous mission for planetary science, and it is hard to see it come to an end.
That loss forced us to concentrate on the satellites. And from my perspective, the satellites are where the action is. That's where the big surprises came.
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