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.

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[–] 40 points 2 years ago* (16 children)

https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2023/12/12/engineers-working-to-resolve-issue-with-voyager-1-computer/

Engineers are working to resolve an issue with one of Voyager 1’s three onboard computers, called the flight data system (FDS). The spacecraft is receiving and executing commands sent from Earth; however, the FDS is not communicating properly with one of the probe’s subsystems, called the telemetry modulation unit (TMU). As a result, no science or engineering data is being sent back to Earth.

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  • [+] -28 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    So now they are going to send engineers to fix/ replace the unit?

    Letting a billion dollar piece of equipment go to waste is not very good either.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Please tell me this is a shitpost.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    There are dozens of satellites, and, o' how ironic that I have mistook this for the reachable ones !

    Cut me some slack, I have been reading nothing but books about coding for the past year or so, okay !?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    But it's the VOYAGER Engelbert!

    Wags finger disapprovingly

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Lol name me 3 of the core components that make up for the structure of the voyager.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    The antennae, the dish and the computing stuff.

    You kept the bar too low 😂😂😂

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Ho !? I didn't know you had it in you ! 😱

    I kind of hoped you would have mentioned any of these: the magnetometer, polarimeter, and the interferometer; or the spectrometer, or the RTG system.

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