The Juno spacecraft successfully ricocheted from earth yesterday to set itself on course to Jupiter (see earlier posting) : Juno goes into safe mode during Earth flyby – Spaceflight Now.

It went into safe mode, some time around closest approach to earth. In safe mode a spacecraft shuts most everything down except the most essential services and prepares to reboot on command from mission control. It’s a way of dealing with potential computer problems that might otherwise put the system into a permanent hanged state.

Despite this glitch, it looks like everything went well.

Amateur observers around the world were able to track and image the spacecraft during its visit: Amateur Images Show Juno’s ‘Slingshot’ Around Earth Was a Success – Universe Today