NASA engineers discover why Voyager 1 is sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system
Voyager 1 has been sending a stream of garbled nonsense since November. Now NASA engineers have identified the fault and found a potential workaround.
46 years is a good run for a memory module.
What’s wild to me is
Although it may take several months, the engineers say they can find a workaround to run the FDS without the fried chip — restoring the spacecraft's messaging output and enabling it to continue to send readable information from outside our solar system.
Like there is such limited hardware on that thing, and we communicate with it in such low bandwidth signals, it’s such a testament to the engineers behind the project that it can still be customized 46 years later, being outside the solar system, to overcome failing hardware
Fantastic documentary on the engineers for Voyager:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt17658964/
Same thought, it’s absolutely astonishing
The article took me right to the point, love to see it nowadays.
I’ve been so conditioned to skim articles to get past the fluff and in-line marketing looking for the point I didn’t realize I ended up reading the whole article. Refeshing.
It’s gone past the simulation parameters?
They forgot to buy the DLC.
There's no dlc, we just have to unlock the content properly. For that, we need a living human to get past the kuiper belt
After decoding the spacecraft's response, the engineers have found the source of the problem: The FDS's memory has been corrupted.
Pretty much what was speculated.
spoiler: it's because the spacecraft has a radio with a big honkin antenna on it
They should reverse the polarity on the onboard microphone and blast some Zeppelin…. Dude
I wonder if it was the legacy team that found it or if they brought in a new team to find the culprit. Would be a bit humiliating to that team of so.
Looks like they discovered someone added a chatgpt module yo the system /s
Should a used ECC