Goce gravity satellite 'caught the cold'

The flagship European Earth Observation satellite Goce was knocked offline because some of its onboard systems got too cold as it circled the planet. The spacecraft is on a mission to make the most precise maps yet of how gravity varies across the world. But when a fault appeared in its one fully functional computer, the flow of science data to the ground stopped. Controllers managed to recover the situation only when they turned the heat up inside the satellite. More

(Source: BBC News - Sep 8)