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NASA Restores a Spacecraft by Turning it Off and Then On Again


When faced with a potentially mission-ending problem with NASA’s 15-year-old Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, engineers performed a time-honored procedure to fix it: they turned it off and then turned it back on again. Success! IBEX is now fully operational again.

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