Zheng He Solar Probe
“Click.” There was no actual noise as the connection was made. In the vast near vacuum of space, no sound was made as Zheng He began to reawaken again. Over the last two years it had woken three times as the faint sunlight started to charge its batteries, but each time the initial boot had started to drain the batteries faster than they charged, and the automatic shutdown kicked back in; but this process had enabled long open switches to retry the connections and, if some had failed the first...