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Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Science Data from Two Instruments - NASA (blogs.nasa.gov)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I just want to give kudos to the engineers who are working with fifty-year-old software to reprogram entirely a spacecraft that's nearly a light-day away. Holy shit.

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

Modern earth-based phones often don't last more than a few years, then there's gigachad 1970s tech floating in interstellar space still chooching.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I mean it's basically running on a toaster. Crazy how much radiation the Voyager probes have to have sustained.

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