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An excellent video from Scott Manley about last year's fix of the Voyager 1 computer. Not related to the recent thruster fix. Original title "The First Inters
by daemonologist 1y ago
An excellent video from Scott Manley about last year's fix of the Voyager 1 computer. Not related to the recent thruster fix.
Original title "The First Interstellar Software Update - The Insane Hack That Saved Voyager 1"; this combined with the [video] tag was too long, so I removed the "number + adjective" in accordance with the HN guidelines.
- daemonologist 1y agoSee related: - from David Cummings at JPL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732632 - from Bruce Waggoner at JPL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385393 - Ars article from the time of the fix: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40155293 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40155293 - CNN article from when communication was lost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640900
- dang 1y agoThanks! Macroexpanded: We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15B Miles Away [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732632 - April 2025 (18 comments) Saving Voyager 1 [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385393 - Dec 2024 (13 comments) How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 from 15B Miles Away - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40155293 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40155293 - April 2024 (56 comments) Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640900 - Dec 2023 (608 comments)