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. Actually, they told the spacecraft to turn itself off and IBEX - which unlike …
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. Actually, they told the spacecraft to turn itself off and IBEX - which unlike …
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