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The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline (arstechnica.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

It won't necessarily come back. Till the orbits of Voyager and the Solar system intersect, we would've merged with Andromeda, which would completely change all orbits in unpredictable ways. So no, you cannot say with confidence that Voyager will return back to the Solar system before the Sun dies purely using orbital mechanics.