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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

has the definition of “no longer transmitting” changed recently?

When functioning properly, the FDS compiles the spacecraft's info into a data package, which is then transmitted back to Earth using the TMU. Lately, that data package has been "stuck," the blog post said, "transmitting a repeating pattern of ones and zeros." Voyager's engineering team traced the problem back to the FDS, but it could be weeks before a solution is found.

I mean, i’m not a scientist, is that not transmitting. flipping click bait titles.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Title is "no longer transmitting data." If it's repeating a pattern, then data is no longer being transmitted.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unreadable data is still data.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is made of lots of little bytes of mayonnaise.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quantum mayonnaise theory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm a fan of the many jars interpretation

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not unreadable. It's not data.

If you want to be pedantic you could say it's "transmitting symbols".

If I only typed out "abaababababbaab" over and over you wouldn't call it "unreadable words." You'd say it's not words.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Omg, you can't just type "abaababababbaab" on the internet you filthy animal!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Transmitting a repeating pattern.

Expected to be fixed in a few weeks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Live Science, continues it's tradition of reasonable and accurately written headlines...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I wonder if they have a simulated Voyager 1 they test their solutions on first. Having two full days between patch and response from the real one is hard to imagine.