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This happened already at least once with a couple Soviet Mars probes - they found a batch of transistors they used were faulty and deteriorate much too quickly in space - after the probes vere already launched.

IIRC some did not even reach Mars while others failed soon after orbit insertion due to various sub-systems failing.




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