Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth due to computer issue | CNN
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NASA’s 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that prevents it from returning science data to Earth from the solar system’s outer reaches.

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.

  • KaryoplasmaEnglish
    9•1 year ago

    How do we know that it’s receiving commands fine? I am assuming pinging Voyager 1 might take a while.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•1 year ago

      It takes 45 hours and that’s a good question.

      Perhaps there are multiple distinct channels with one for command responses and another for scientific data?

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      It takes 20+ hours so since the announcement and now they could have send a command and gotten a response