The New Horizon's Holiday Glitch was More Fear-Inducing Than We Realized
When the New Horizons probe glitched and went into safe mode last weekend, the situation was worse than anyone outside the lab even knew. For hours, the lab heard not a peep from their probe, uncertain if it even still existed. When it finally called home, it was the first-ever test of the backup computer.
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