Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth - eviltoast

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.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    It takes 45 hours and that’s a good question.

    Perhaps there are multiple distinct channels with one for command responses and another for scientific data?