The Cassini spacecraft exploring the system of Saturn is back doing science. On November 2, Cassini's main computer put itself into safe mode, and engineers worked for the next three weeks trying to determine what had gone wrong. They finally traced the problem to a simple bit flip in the computer. They also saw that the Cassini computer had performed properly after the flip, and were able to put the spacecraft back into normal operations.
During the down time Cassini missed collecting data through a close approach to Titan, but seems ready for a close flyby of Enceladus next week.
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