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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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[-] Agent_Engelbert@linux.community 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Steak@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

I think the pellets he's been swallowing up were little bits of his brain

[-] Agent_Engelbert@linux.community 2 points 1 year ago

Coming from arch Linux, I can relate to that.

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Please tell me this is a shitpost.

[-] Agent_Engelbert@linux.community 3 points 1 year ago

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 !?

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

But it's the VOYAGER Engelbert!

Wags finger disapprovingly

[-] Agent_Engelbert@linux.community 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The antennae, the dish and the computing stuff.

You kept the bar too low πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

[-] Agent_Engelbert@linux.community 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hehehehehe

The last time I ever read about it was in 3rd grade πŸ˜‚. So this is definitely the extent of my knowledge πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

Books about coding? Could you tell the 00’s I said hi?

[-] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

The engineers would die of old age before they even caught up to it.

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yep, but it will take them 46 years to fix.

[-] Agent_Engelbert@linux.community 2 points 1 year ago

Well considering how far it is.. I can only imagine that they are going to let it go due to redundancy. And yet the notion does not escape my mind.

Who knows what solutions we might come up with in the future ?

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