The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline

downpunxx@fedia.io to Technology@lemmy.world – 381 points – NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix
arstechnica.com

"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."

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RIP. Rest in Interstellar sPace

This is just a diagnosis of the problem.

That thing is engineered so they can bypass or repurpose ever little bit.

Which is probably what they'll do now, do a software update that will make the system evade the bad memory segment.

Voyager has 3 computers and only 1 is affected.

Did they use 3 different types of memory? If one is failing after 45 years I'd think the odds of the other similar memory possibly failing as well is possible