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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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[-] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 308 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] deleted@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

So the title did its job which is you understand nothing until you enter their site, drive traffic, display ads, and possibly collect your data in the process.

[-] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

Sure and Lemmy did its work by letting me and others relay the info. I hate ads as much as the next guy, especially targeted ads, but the internet is free and I don’t pay CNN a dime so I’ll take the hit for you this time. Next time, you click the clickbait and fill us in ☺️

[-] Exec@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago

possibly collect your data in the process

Nooo they respect your privacy just share your stuff with 967 of their partners

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[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Are we sure it isn't YouTube trying to insert an ad?

[-] RazorsLedge@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

This is the dumbest thing I've read today. You got a giggle out of me.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

How do we know that it's receiving commands fine? I am assuming pinging Voyager 1 might take a while.

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[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 137 points 1 year ago

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

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

Good thing we have cheap labor at your disposal!

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Elon, get the fuck up there. Take bozos.

[-] nicetriangle@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

They should go check out the Titanic first

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[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 129 points 1 year ago

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

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Love your name. Greatest band in human history.

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[-] sneezymrmilo@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Would you consider someone screaming gibberish at you, communicating?

[-] sneezymrmilo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Haha I mean that's fair. Although I'm mainly just displeased with the title of the article. Its worded in a way that conveys that we've lost contact with the satellite completely, which is not the case. Just a bit too click baity for my tastes.

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[-] duplexsystem 9 points 1 year ago

From what I read they can talk to the CCS (Computer Command System) just fine but the CCS is getting garbled data from the FDS (Flight Data Subsystem)

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

People do this on a daily basis.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] H_Interlinked@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Thanks, Uncle Facebook.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Shrug, Opportunity is much newer and still lasted about a thousand times longer than its design length.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

I have complete faith in Captain Janeway.

[-] Jramskov@feddit.dk 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] 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

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

Please tell me this is a shitpost.

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[-] 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.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

You know what this means?

[-] Naminreb@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago

Why did they install Windows 11?

[-] sparky1337@ttrpg.network 39 points 1 year ago

Forced update, they took too long to restart.

[-] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

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

…typical.

[-] Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

"upgrading"

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[-] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 year ago

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

[-] Vincent@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

They actually did:

The Voyager team sent commands over the weekend for the spacecraft to restart the flight data system, but no usable data has come back yet, according to NASA.

Unfortunately, that didn't help. So now they'll have to find out what's causing this, and then see if they can fix it.

[-] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago

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

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

The question then is why the intern has access to the shut down button.

[-] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Management got one IT guy managing the whole infrastructure so everyone who needs anything gets domain admin rights

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[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

New communications unit who dis?

[-] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Was it something we said?

[-] tomasz@lemmy.sieprawski.pl 7 points 1 year ago
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