Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth due to computer issue | CNN
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.
I don't blame it for cutting off earth. This place is toxic and self destructive.
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Bit of a misleading title. The voyager can still receive commands and send data to earth, the problem is that instead of useful data it just keeps sending repeating code of no use. Not a huge fan of these sensationalized and just blatantly wrong news article titles.
Would you consider someone screaming gibberish at you, communicating?
Haha I mean that's fair. Although I'm mainly just displeased with the title of the article. Its worded in a way that conveys that we've lost contact with the satellite completely, which is not the case. Just a bit too click baity for my tastes.
From what I read they can talk to the CCS (Computer Command System) just fine but the CCS is getting garbled data from the FDS (Flight Data Subsystem)
Twitter?
People do this on a daily basis.
I have complete faith in Captain Janeway.
Engineers are working to resolve an issue with one of Voyager 1’s three onboard computers, called the flight data system (FDS). The spacecraft is receiving and executing commands sent from Earth; however, the FDS is not communicating properly with one of the probe’s subsystems, called the telemetry modulation unit (TMU). As a result, no science or engineering data is being sent back to Earth.
So now they are going to send engineers to fix/ replace the unit?
Letting a billion dollar piece of equipment go to waste is not very good either.
Why did they install Windows 11?
Forced update, they took too long to restart.
You know what this means?
Didn’t I recently read that they were updating its software?
…typical.
"upgrading"
They forgot to pay the subscription for the solar panels RTGs
EDIT: I guess it relies more on nuclear than solar
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
They actually did:
The Voyager team sent commands over the weekend for the spacecraft to restart the flight data system, but no usable data has come back yet, according to NASA.
Unfortunately, that didn't help. So now they'll have to find out what's causing this, and then see if they can fix it.
When the new intern presses shut down instead of disconnect while connected to the production server
The question then is why the intern has access to the shut down button.
Management got one IT guy managing the whole infrastructure so everyone who needs anything gets domain admin rights
Ah, time to reconfigure the IP address. Just set that, and click bring down network port, and click bring it up again... click ... click ... oh.
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Well, I’m 46 and sometimes getting old is hard…
New communications unit who dis?
Hacker news thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640900
So now it's v0yager
Womp womp.
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.
So the title did its job which is you understand nothing until you enter their site, drive traffic, display ads, and possibly collect your data in the process.
Sure and Lemmy did its work by letting me and others relay the info. I hate ads as much as the next guy, especially targeted ads, but the internet is free and I don’t pay CNN a dime so I’ll take the hit for you this time. Next time, you click the clickbait and fill us in ☺️
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Ads are a shitty part of the internet experience, but what exactly is your point here…?
Are we sure it isn't YouTube trying to insert an ad?
This is the dumbest thing I've read today. You got a giggle out of me.
God forbid we pollute the far reaches of space with radiation. (sic.)
RTGs are still used for outer solar system missions. Not enough light for solar panels. Hell, even the Perseverance Mars rover, which was launched in 2020, has an RTG.
How do we know that it's receiving commands fine? I am assuming pinging Voyager 1 might take a while.
It takes 20+ hours so since the announcement and now they could have send a command and gotten a response
I wonder if it's struggling with Parity Checks?