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The prestigious George W. Goddard Award, 1996.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek. Personal collection.
CASSINI MISSION
She is best known for developing an auton-
omous technique for optical navigation, which
remains one of the fundamental methods for
determining location and orientation on and
around Earth. With the help of star charts, an
intelligent CCD camera, and a computer cal-
culating directions based on an algorithm she of Optics and Photonics bestowed on her the
Earth-based calculations. The technology was She became the first woman to receive this ac-
developed, spacecraft became independent of
first deployed on the Cassini mission to Saturn.
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For this invention, the International Society
prestigious George W. Goddard Award in 1996.
colade.