Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth

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Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth due to computer issue | CNN
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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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Imagine if this were built with tech from today. It would be non-functional right after the warranty.

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

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!

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