David Colarusso on Nostr: TL;DR: NASA engineers have fixed the issue with Voyager 1's computer. The spacecraft ...
TL;DR: NASA engineers have fixed the issue with Voyager 1's computer. The spacecraft had stopped transmitting data in November. Engineers suspected a problem with the memory bank. After months of troubleshooting, they sent a command to recode part of the memory, and on Saturday, they received a signal indicating successful communication.
https://arstechnica.com/?p=2019258Published at
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