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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    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.

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

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                  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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                    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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          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 ?