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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    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.

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        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 !?

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            1 year ago

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

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                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.

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                  1 year ago

                  Hehehehehe

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

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          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?

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        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 ?