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.
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That's fantastic, that means all they have to do is reset some components and it should restore functionality. I say should, it's still a scary thing to turn on/off components om a satellite bcz you aren't guaranteed they'll come on. Nasa people usually prefer soft resets to hard resets of components, but we'll see what happens.
One of the satellites I worked on had to have a software update to do a soft reset of a component every time it tried to write certain data. It was really scary bcz we thought we had lost one of our redundancies right after launch, which would have sucked.
But, we didn't. Anyway, just wanted to give a little bit of insight into what the FOT might be thinking about while they're trying to recover the satellite to nominal state.
Yeah I got very sad when I saw the headline and breathed a huge sigh of relief. Voyager 1’s death will be far sadder than most public figures. Maybe any.
Same, for a moment I was really concerned. Voyager is like a lifetime achievement for humanity at this point. When it stops communicating its going to be a big loss for the scientific community, and population as a whole. I'm not looking forward to hearing about its loss of functionality in the next decade or so.
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I don't know if I would consider Voyager to be 'dead' if it stops transmitting.
If I put a message in a bottle, with a blinky light on it, then throw it into the ocean, the message is still there even if the blinky light goes out.
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.
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 ☺️
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It’s gonna be a real pain in the ass to get a tech out there and look at it
Good thing we have cheap labor at your disposal!
Elon, get the fuck up there. Take bozos.
They should go check out the Titanic first
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I don't blame it for cutting off earth. This place is toxic and self destructive.
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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.
Would you consider someone screaming gibberish at you, communicating?
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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It’s not gibberish. It’s alien for “Sorry, no interstellar science for you”
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Imagine if this were built with tech from today. It would be non-functional right after the warranty.
Thanks, Uncle Facebook.
Thankfully, NASA is non-profit so they won't ever do that.
Shrug, Opportunity is much newer and still lasted about a thousand times longer than its design length.
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V'Ger must evolve. It's knowledge has reached the limits of this universe and it must evolve.
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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You know what this means?
Didn’t I recently read that they were updating its software?
…typical.
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Why did they install Windows 11?
Forced update, they took too long to restart.
"Amazingly old spacecraft is starting to break."
Voyager 1 has had an exceptional service life, the poor old thing is tired.
I hope they can say that about me one day
“He was basically built to live 75 years. Fortunately for us, and for science, he’s still sending back signals these 4,000 years later”
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Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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.
When the new intern presses shut down instead of disconnect while connected to the production server
“No! No! Log out you fool! No! Don’t shut it down oh god he shut it down”
“Told you we should have greyed that out”
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The question then is why the intern has access to the shut down button.
Management got one IT guy managing the whole infrastructure so everyone who needs anything gets domain admin rights
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Well, I’m 46 and sometimes getting old is hard…
Sophons messing with Voyager 1, keeping it from reporting something strange out there.
I bet there’s something out there, at 22.5 light hours, that the aliens don’t want us to know about. After V1 passes through this thing they don’t want us to detect, they’ll allow the glitch to be fixed.
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New communications unit who dis?
Was it something we said?
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