When I saw the title I thought it was going to be the first deployment of the Qualcomm system featured on fullycharged[1] back in November. What they've actually done looks... kinda flakey.
The Cassini mission reminded me of the line "we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace." and I thought I'd post the whole verse as it is as poignant today as it as ever has been.
What we can accomplish together in peace is breathtaking.
"Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace."
It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body.
- ALEXANDER FLEMING, Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1945