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Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth (edition.cnn.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Imagine if this were built with tech from today. It would be non-functional right after the warranty.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago

Thanks, Uncle Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thankfully, NASA is non-profit so they won't ever do that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They don't manufacture their equipment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

They don't, but they manage the people that do and pay for it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I believe they still make the probes and rovers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Shrug, Opportunity is much newer and still lasted about a thousand times longer than its design length.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

But it’s got 70 terabits of storage! We closed over 1700 issues on this thing! My god we must have spent 13 billion on it so far!

How can it be failing? I mean just … just … look at the numbers!