The Mars orbiter that relays messages from martian rovers back to Earth was forced to reboot after it came upon a software glitch Monday. It is now in Safemode and is expected to return to normal function by the end of the week. While members of the team were not concerned, it limited the ease of contact between Earth and the busy rovers below.
From a financial stance losing an orbiter of this caliber would have been extremely detrimental to the task. Researchers would have to launch another orbiter, wait for it to get into place and then continue at full power. At this point the rovers are busy and losing their full capability would have been crippling.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/070918_mo_glitch.html
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