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.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    381·
    11 months ago

    “Amazingly old spacecraft is starting to break.”

    Voyager 1 has had an exceptional service life, the poor old thing is tired.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      I hope they can say that about me one day

      “He was basically built to live 75 years. Fortunately for us, and for science, he’s still sending back signals these 4,000 years later”

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Nope! Not me. I’m kinda hoping to undershoot the median age. My warranty’s expired and I really don’t know if I’m up for the “maybe we can find parts at the You-Pick” stage of existence.