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Imagine you work for the MMS mission.
Your goal is to measure how the sun's

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and Earth's magnetic fields connect and
disconnect. Explosively transferring

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energy from one to the other.
We call this magnetic reconnection. We

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want to get a 3d observation of magnetic
reconnection. To do this you'll need

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measurements at four different points, a
single base point and one additional

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point for each dimension. This means you
have to build not one but four

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spacecraft. And you'll need to pack each
one with 25 instruments. You'll need to

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arrange them so that they are not
blocking each other and so that the

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magnetometers are held safely away from
the spacecraft's body. But wait you only

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have four years to build test and launch
all of them. It typically takes four

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years to build just one. So you won't be
able to build them one at a time. You'll

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have to work on them concurrently. You'll
need a team to help you do that. They

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will need space to work so you'll have
to build a cleanroom. And you'll have to

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keep all of your people paper and tools
organized, because you'll have to wrap

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four sets of wires, and prepare four sets
of flight hardware, and do four sets of

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tests, and make sure that everyone is
working on the right project at the

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right time. And now it's time to get to
work.

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