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by aa6ll 876 days ago
Does someone has an idea for how the communication/fixing was done?

Was it radio waves of flipping bits? Or how does that work?

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>Its solar cells are working again after a shift in lighting conditions allowed it to catch sunlight, the agency said.

>It could not generate power when it landed on 20 January as the solar cells pointed away from the Sun.

Sounds like they were just lucky with the angle of sunlight.

Yes. I don't remember the details but they also adjusted the power management to basically make it sleep until the right conditions happen, once they could confirm the angle of the panels.