Comment on NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fixparentComments−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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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.