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Do they have a simulator besides risking Voyager 2?

• ceejayoz 2y ago
  Not of the entire system, I don't think. https://www.businessinsider.com/engineers-turn-to-voyager-decades-old-documents-fix-a-glitch-2022-7 https://www.businessinsider.com/engineers-turn-to-voyager-de... > During the first 12 years of the Voyager mission, thousands of engineers worked on the project, Dodd said. "As they retired in the '70s and '80s, there wasn't a big push to have a project document library. People would take their boxes home to their garage," Dodd added. In modern missions, NASA keeps more robust records of documentation. Nowadays we've learned to make a duplicate. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-readies-perseverance-mars-rovers-earthly-twin https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-readies-perseverance-mars... Back when the Spirit rover got trapped, they used its twin to pre-game possible approaches in similar soil. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/mars-and-earth-activities-aim-to-get-spirit-rolling-again https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/mars-and-earth-activities-aim-...