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Not sure if old news or something new has come up. See https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/voyager_1_not_dead/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/voyage
by asicsp 3y ago
Not sure if old news or something new has come up.
See https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/voyager_1_not_dead/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/voyager_1_not_dead/
(discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39704914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39704914)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/world/voyager-1-communication-issue-poke-scn/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/world/voyager-1-communication... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726235)
- OatmealDome 3y agoAt the time those articles were published, the engineers were analyzing a memory dump received from the spacecraft. The update in this new article is that they have determined that a memory chip has gone bad.
- Dalewyn 3y agoThis is frankly awesome news, we now know Voyager 1 just needs a Windows Update(tm) to keep on flying. Of course, "just" is putting it mildly to say the least, but I don't want to think how worse the diagnosis could have been.