>It is amazing how robust those JPL projects are. ...
Yes, in the case of GP-B, in the last update they mentioned lots of precautions that had been taken to protect the data, the computer system, etc. But they forgot to mention one important precaution: that the computers (pressumably) don't run on Windows <g>.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)