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[i]Part of the reason the spacecraft was so affected by the lightning while the Saturn was not involved the spacecraft's greater exposure — it was positioned like the tip of a lightning rod — and part of it was luck, as [Don] Arabian emphatically pointed out... In the case of the IU, induced currents reached the guidance system's circuits but the computer software kept the platform from tumbling.[/i]
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