The long arm of the celestial repairman.(Solar and Heliospheric Observatory to be repaired in space)

The Economist (US) | October 17, 1998 | Copyright

The recent mending of a broken spacecraft that was meant to study the sun is only the latest in a line of successful long-distance resuscitations

IF THE prospect of fixing your own car or television seems daunting, imagine trying to rectify a faulty space probe as it hurtles through the vacuum, millions of kilometres away. Yet over the years, as various spacecraft have explored the inner and outer reaches of the solar system-and often gone wrong in the process-ingenious and resourceful engineers on earth have found ways of doing just that.

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