Yeah, I'd say it's actually pretty common to make spacecraft avionics as remotely switchable as possible. For one thing, there's likely to be a considerable amo

Yeah, I'd say it's actually pretty common to make spacecraft avionics as remotely switchable as possible. For one thing, there's likely to be a considerable amount of redundancy so that a single component failure doesn't ruin your whole mission. It's good practice to have a way to isolate any component that is anticipated to fail. FDIR is a known acronym: fault detection, isolation and recovery.