Why were some wind data from Huygens’s descent lost?

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Titan Titan, moon of Saturn, photographed by Voyager 2 on August 25, 1981, at a distance of 907,000 km (564,000 miles). Green and violet images were combined to make this photograph, which shows the extended atmosphere of the satellite.

During the Huygens probe's descent to Titan, some wind data were lost because one of the radio channels on the Cassini orbiter was not turned on due to an error.1