Comment on NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fixComments−asicsp2yNot sure if old news or something new has come up.See https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/voyager_1_not_dead/ (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39704914)https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/world/voyager-1-communication... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726235)−OatmealDome2yAt the time those articles were published, the engineers were analyzing a memory dump received from the spacecraft.The update in this new article is that they have determined that a memory chip has gone bad.−Dalewyn2yThis is frankly awesome news, we now know Voyager 1 just needs a Windows Update(tm) to keep on flying. Of course, "just" is putting it mildly to say the least, but I don't want to think how worse the diagnosis could have been.
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Not sure if old news or something new has come up.
See https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/voyager_1_not_dead/ (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39704914)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/world/voyager-1-communication... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726235)
At the time those articles were published, the engineers were analyzing a memory dump received from the spacecraft.
The update in this new article is that they have determined that a memory chip has gone bad.
This is frankly awesome news, we now know Voyager 1 just needs a Windows Update(tm) to keep on flying. Of course, "just" is putting it mildly to say the least, but I don't want to think how worse the diagnosis could have been.