Faster, better, cheaper space exploration.

For cost and quality reasons, NASA is allowing its contractors great leeway in designing and building new systems. Here, the author describes how this hands-off approach worked when Hewlett-Packard built the electrical ground support system for the Lunar Prospector, which will mark Earth's retu...

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Published in:IEEE spectrum 35, 8 (1998).
Main Author: Marcopulos, T.
Format: Article
Language:English
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