Moi3-eu-se-r8960l [BEST]

It was etched into a brushed titanium plate no larger than a thumbnail, riveted to the inner hull of a deep-space probe the size of a coffin. To the engineers at Thales-Alenia who built it, it was a serial number. To the ESA logicians who filed its flight plan, it was a string of identifiers: Mission Objective Identifier 3 – European Union – Southern Europe – Research model 8960-L.

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