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Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 11 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] 313 points 11 months ago (36 children)

For those who didn’t read the article, voyager 1 is still sending and transmitting data. It’s stuck in a loop sending the same packets to Earth on repeat but it is receiving commands just fine. It’s not completely dark.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How do we know that it's receiving commands fine? I am assuming pinging Voyager 1 might take a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It takes 20+ hours so since the announcement and now they could have send a command and gotten a response

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