https://www.siliconvalley.com/2019/10/12/how-pges-power-shutdown-threatened-a-nasa-mission/

BERKELEY — At noon Tuesday — 30 hours before a satellite was supposed to launch — the head of UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab sent an alarming email.

“Here’s an update on the impact of the power shutdown,” it began. “Overall, we are not optimistic we can pull this off but we are working as hard as we can to make it happen, if everything falls our way.”