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NASA engineers discover why Voyager 1 is sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system (www.livescience.com)

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 7 months ago (7 children)

46 years is a good run for a memory module.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 7 months ago (6 children)

What’s wild to me is

Although it may take several months, the engineers say they can find a workaround to run the FDS without the fried chip — restoring the spacecraft's messaging output and enabling it to continue to send readable information from outside our solar system.

Like there is such limited hardware on that thing, and we communicate with it in such low bandwidth signals, it’s such a testament to the engineers behind the project that it can still be customized 46 years later, being outside the solar system, to overcome failing hardware

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Imagine what we could do now if we launched another Voyager.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The planetary alignment that allowed for the first 2 Voyager missions won't reoccur for nearly a century.

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