Contact restored with NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe
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NASA has regained full contact with the Voyager 1 space probe, the most distant human-made object in the universe, scientists announced Monday.

Voyager 1 contact restored

    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
      34·
      6 months ago

      The problem was that Voyager sent junk data back to us due to a memory fault. It was still responsive to receive updates from Earth and to pings.

      Pinging Voyager 1 takes about 2 days, so testing updates is naturally quite slow.

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        6 months ago

        Not only round trip time, the hardware only supports bandwidth of 160bps at this range. Down from the 21.6kbps at launch.

    • histic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      15·
      6 months ago

      Im guessing it could still listen just not talk back

      Edit read the article

      Although the radio signal from the spacecraft had never ceased its connection to ground control operators on Earth during the computer problem, that signal had not carried any usable data since

    • lorkano@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      This Satelite must offer option to install software updates over the air, so they modified software and slowly uploaded it to the satelite.