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NASA's Voyager 1 probe hasn't 'spoken' in 3 months and needs a 'miracle' to save it (www.livescience.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a miracle it lasted as long as it did.

[โ€“] SpaceNoodle 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's NASA engineering.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Still very impressive regardless of who did it. Its original mission plan was for a little over 3 years but it worked for 46 years!

[โ€“] SpaceNoodle 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

14-15x operational plan isn't unheard of. The Mars Ingenuity helicopter outperformed by that much as well.

Done right, engineering does very much resemble magic.