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Voyager 1 is working again, sort of
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth

>For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again. The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between stars).

>The team discovered that a single chip responsible for storing a portion of the FDS memory — including some of the FDS computer’s software code — isn’t working. The loss of that code rendered the science and engineering data unusable. Unable to repair the chip, the team decided to place the affected code elsewhere in the FDS memory. But no single location is large enough to hold the section of code in its entirety.

>So they devised a plan to divide the affected code into sections and store those sections in different places in the FDS. To make this plan work, they also needed to adjust those code sections to ensure, for example, that they all still function as a whole. Any references to the location of that code in other parts of the FDS memory needed to be updated as well.

Most of the team look too old to know how a computer works. Maybe that's why they broke it to begin with.

>> No.16150495

how much % of initial RTG power output?

>> No.16150507

>>>/sci/sfg/

>> No.16150520 [DELETED] 

>>16150490
>Most of the team look too old to know how a computer works. Maybe that's why they broke it to begin with.
What a stupid shithead lmao. Do we need to tell the obvious can't you comprehend in yourself?

>> No.16150523

>>16150490
>Most of the team look too old to know how a computer works. Maybe that's why they broke it to begin with.
What a stupid shithead lmao. Do we need to tell the obvious, can't you comprehend it yourself?

>> No.16150631

>>16150507
Satellites don't fly fyi

>> No.16150637

>>16150523
I don't get it