NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth – Voyager
blogs.nasa.gov
  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Well in a way Voyager 1 and 2 are bran new relative to the age of the universe.
    But for us they are from 1977 which is 47 years old, bombarded by cosmic rays and what not. It’s crazy they still have power.
    It’s amazing NASA has succeeded establishing contact again 24 billion kilometers away, they really have some crazy good people working there then and now.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Didn’t the small amount of memory they had just completely stop working? I’d love to see or hear how they managed to reprogram this damn thing and make it work again. Amazing.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 months ago

      It did die- one specific chip carrying the code for packaging the data for transmittal died. They kind of described it in this article. So they are now partitioning out the memory left in other parts of the computer system and copying small portions of the packaging code into those other memory blocks so it can still be successfully run.

      The fact that any electronic component on this probe still works is just freaking wild.