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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Voyager 1 contact restored

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The problem was that Voyager sent junk data back to us due to a memory fault. It was still responsive to receive updates from Earth and to pings.

Pinging Voyager 1 takes about 2 days, so testing updates is naturally quite slow.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Not only round trip time, the hardware only supports bandwidth of 160bps at this range. Down from the 21.6kbps at launch.