Reply to post: Re: Time for an early version of R2D2?

NASA tried turning lost spacecraft STEREO-B off and on again... but it didn't work. True story

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Re: Time for an early version of R2D2?

<quote>If the bot were to fail, we could include a special bot that's designed to repair the defective bot so that it could repair the satellite!</quote>

No, that is what ejection mechanisms are for. Then you report to manglement that the spacecraft is hopelessly fucked.

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