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Hubble Space Telescope sails serenely on in safe mode after efforts to switch to backup memory modules fail

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Power Off

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

I've been told by folks that actually command satellites that power cycling and switching to backup components that affect command/control are last resorts only to be tried after everything else has failed. Makes sense. What's the fallback if you power down and the satellite or its communications system fails to come back up????

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