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Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth (edition.cnn.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I don't know if I would consider Voyager to be 'dead' if it stops transmitting.

If I put a message in a bottle, with a blinky light on it, then throw it into the ocean, the message is still there even if the blinky light goes out.