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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NASAโ€™s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch thatโ€™s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.

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So now they are going to send engineers to fix/ replace the unit?

Letting a billion dollar piece of equipment go to waste is not very good either.

Please tell me this is a shitpost.

There are dozens of satellites, and, o' how ironic that I have mistook this for the reachable ones !

Cut me some slack, I have been reading nothing but books about coding for the past year or so, okay !?

But it's the VOYAGER Engelbert!

Wags finger disapprovingly

Lol name me 3 of the core components that make up for the structure of the voyager.

The antennae, the dish and the computing stuff.

You kept the bar too low ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

Ho !? I didn't know you had it in you ! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

I kind of hoped you would have mentioned any of these: the magnetometer, polarimeter, and the interferometer; or the spectrometer, or the RTG system.

Hehehehehe

The last time I ever read about it was in 3rd grade ๐Ÿ˜‚. So this is definitely the extent of my knowledge ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

Cut me some slack, I have been reading nothing but books about coding for the past year or so, okay !?

Books about coding? Could you tell the 00โ€™s I said hi?

Yep, but it will take them 46 years to fix.

Well considering how far it is.. I can only imagine that they are going to let it go due to redundancy. And yet the notion does not escape my mind.

Who knows what solutions we might come up with in the future ?

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