The spacecraft's battery failed in May 2007 and the mission has been terminated after 18 months.
The battery that powered the telemetry system failed and then caught fire.
Her anti-aircraft batteries opened up immediately but failed to hit the intruder.
By good fortune, the battery of drums where the party was standing failed to go off.
It would continue to operate for more than a week before its batteries failed.
But you want to get to the garage before the battery fails and your car dies.
It continued to transmit data for four orbits when the batteries failed.
The probe's batteries will probably fail after no more than two hours.
The reduction in size makes it more likely that the batteries can fail, break, leak or short circuit.
But if the batteries fail or are uncharged, information can be lost.