Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Boris Smeds" in English language version.
ESA's staff association awarded him and some of his colleagues a plaque and a small cash prize for their role in saving the $300 million mission [US$300,000,000 (equivalent to about $484,000,000 in 2023)], though Smeds told Spectrum that he is still looking forward to his real reward: "I hope to sit in Darmstadt and see the data coming in on the screen in January."(offline as of 2006-10-14, see Internet Archive version)
ESA's staff association awarded him and some of his colleagues a plaque and a small cash prize for their role in saving the $300 million mission [US$300,000,000 (equivalent to about $484,000,000 in 2023)], though Smeds told Spectrum that he is still looking forward to his real reward: "I hope to sit in Darmstadt and see the data coming in on the screen in January."(offline as of 2006-10-14, see Internet Archive version)
When James Oberg [..] suggested to IEEE Spectrum an article[...]As the research for this article progressed, we discovered another reason to print it: the tale of an unsung hero, Boris Smeds. Without him, Huygens's mission would have continued in ignorance of the lurking communications problem—right up until disaster. Smeds's commitment to uncompromising engineering led him to battle bureaucracy and develop the tough test that unmasked the flaw. His engineering instinct and ability to improvise rooted out not just the flaw's existence, but its proximate cause. Smeds's example of what it means to be a great engineer is the most compelling lesson of all.
ESA's staff association awarded him and some of his colleagues a plaque and a small cash prize for their role in saving the $300 million mission [US$300,000,000 (equivalent to about $484,000,000 in 2023)], though Smeds told Spectrum that he is still looking forward to his real reward: "I hope to sit in Darmstadt and see the data coming in on the screen in January."(offline as of 2006-10-14, see Internet Archive version)
When James Oberg [..] suggested to IEEE Spectrum an article[...]As the research for this article progressed, we discovered another reason to print it: the tale of an unsung hero, Boris Smeds. Without him, Huygens's mission would have continued in ignorance of the lurking communications problem—right up until disaster. Smeds's commitment to uncompromising engineering led him to battle bureaucracy and develop the tough test that unmasked the flaw. His engineering instinct and ability to improvise rooted out not just the flaw's existence, but its proximate cause. Smeds's example of what it means to be a great engineer is the most compelling lesson of all.
