Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth due to computer issue | CNN
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NASA’s 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that prevents it from returning science data to Earth from the solar system’s outer reaches.

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.

  • sneezymrmilo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    942·
    1 year ago

    Bit of a misleading title. The voyager can still receive commands and send data to earth, the problem is that instead of useful data it just keeps sending repeating code of no use. Not a huge fan of these sensationalized and just blatantly wrong news article titles.

      • sneezymrmilo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Haha I mean that’s fair. Although I’m mainly just displeased with the title of the article. Its worded in a way that conveys that we’ve lost contact with the satellite completely, which is not the case. Just a bit too click baity for my tastes.

        • Jojo@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          I didn’t quite read it that way, but I can see how someone could read it that way. It does really seem like the probe is having problems with its internals, less than “communication has stopped”

        • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          It’s actually just gotten far enough that the data is being rendered at lower fidelity to save resources

          They didn’t expect us to get sensors outside the heliosphere before winning the game, but players always immediately find crazy and unexpected ways to break your games

      • duplexsystem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        From what I read they can talk to the CCS (Computer Command System) just fine but the CCS is getting garbled data from the FDS (Flight Data Subsystem)