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How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft
A close call
The E nhanced R emote I nterface U nits ( ERIU s) are how the computer onboard the spacecraft communicates with all the different sensors and systems that read actual orbit and mission data. When the ERIU tried to send telemetry back to the sim, the addresses it was given weren’t actually pointing to anything, and it bascially throws a null pointer dereference and crashes. Safemode is when all non critical functions are automatically shut down and the satellite becomes entirely focused on generating power by pointing its solar panels towards the Sun and trying to reestablish any communication that was lost.
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