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NASA engineers discover why Voyager 1 is sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system
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46 years is a good run for a memory module.
Whatβs wild to me is
Like there is such limited hardware on that thing, and we communicate with it in such low bandwidth signals, itβs 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/
Looks really interesting, thanks for the tip!
Imagine what we could do now if we launched another Voyager.
It would run a Twitter stack on a Windows server and reboot itself every Monday morning.
The planetary alignment that allowed for the first 2 Voyager missions won't reoccur for nearly a century.
Same thought, itβs absolutely astonishing