▲ 625 ▼ Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth (edition.cnn.com) submitted 2 years ago by tomasz@lemmy.sieprawski.pl to c/technology@lemmy.world 118 comments fedilink hide all child comments NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.
[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 years ago (1 child) Have you tried turning it off and on again? permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Vincent@kbin.social 40 points 2 years ago They actually did: The Voyager team sent commands over the weekend for the spacecraft to restart the flight data system, but no usable data has come back yet, according to NASA. Unfortunately, that didn't help. So now they'll have to find out what's causing this, and then see if they can fix it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Vincent@kbin.social 40 points 2 years ago They actually did: The Voyager team sent commands over the weekend for the spacecraft to restart the flight data system, but no usable data has come back yet, according to NASA. Unfortunately, that didn't help. So now they'll have to find out what's causing this, and then see if they can fix it. permalink fedilink source parent