For those who didn’t read the article, voyager 1 is still sending and transmitting data. It’s stuck in a loop sending the same packets to Earth on repeat but it is receiving commands just fine. It’s not completely dark.

It’s gonna be a real pain in the ass to get a tech out there and look at it

I don't blame it for cutting off earth. This place is toxic and self destructive.

Bit of a misleading title. The voyager can still receive commands and send data to earth, the problem is that instead of useful data it just keeps sending repeating code of no use. Not a huge fan of these sensationalized and just blatantly wrong news article titles.

I have complete faith in Captain Janeway.

Imagine if this were built with tech from today. It would be non-functional right after the warranty.

V'Ger must evolve. It's knowledge has reached the limits of this universe and it must evolve.

You know what this means?

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.

Didn’t I recently read that they were updating its software?

…typical.

Why did they install Windows 11?

"Amazingly old spacecraft is starting to break."

Voyager 1 has had an exceptional service life, the poor old thing is tired.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

When the new intern presses shut down instead of disconnect while connected to the production server

Well, I’m 46 and sometimes getting old is hard…

Sophons messing with Voyager 1, keeping it from reporting something strange out there.

I bet there’s something out there, at 22.5 light hours, that the aliens don’t want us to know about. After V1 passes through this thing they don’t want us to detect, they’ll allow the glitch to be fixed.

New communications unit who dis?