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Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth (edition.cnn.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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.

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[–] sneezymrmilo 92 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Bonskreeskreeskree 36 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Would you consider someone screaming gibberish at you, communicating?

[–] sneezymrmilo 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I didn't quite read it that way, but I can see how someone could read it that way. It does really seem like the probe is having problems with its internals, less than "communication has stopped"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s not gibberish. It’s alien for “Sorry, no interstellar science for you”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It's actually just gotten far enough that the data is being rendered at lower fidelity to save resources

They didn't expect us to get sensors outside the heliosphere before winning the game, but players always immediately find crazy and unexpected ways to break your games

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Flight data is like the log of sensor data right?

[–] jj4211 8 points 11 months ago

Twitter?

[–] deafboy 5 points 11 months ago

People do this on a daily basis.