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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] 92 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Would you consider someone screaming gibberish at you, communicating?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months 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"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s not gibberish. It’s alien for “Sorry, no interstellar science for you”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months 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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Flight data is like the log of sensor data right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

People do this on a daily basis.