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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] 1 points 7 months ago

Maybe in some perfect high school physics problem context. Ever heard of the three body problem? How about the million body problem zooming through the galaxy?

Why would be expect a deep space probe to return to earth when it’s going to interact with many objects with millions of times the mass of the earth?