@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 22 hours agoVoyager 1 loses contact with NASA, turns on retro transmitter not used since 1981www.livescience.commessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1382cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1382external-linkVoyager 1 loses contact with NASA, turns on retro transmitter not used since 1981www.livescience.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 22 hours agomessage-square54fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish63•16 hours agoEvery few months there is a similar such story about this ancient marvel of technology and the people remotely maintaining it against all odds. I can imagine a headline 100 years from now: “Engineers are modifying Voyager 1 decorative panel bolt into a functional interstellar communicator”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink24•12 hours agoeach line of code is transmitted over a bandwidth that only supports 1/2 a bit, and it takes 3.5 years to reach the Voyager
minus-square@Big_Boss_77linkEnglish4•8 hours agoThis is the exact bit of data I was searching for, thanks a bunch.
Every few months there is a similar such story about this ancient marvel of technology and the people remotely maintaining it against all odds.
I can imagine a headline 100 years from now:
“Engineers are modifying Voyager 1 decorative panel bolt into a functional interstellar communicator”
each line of code is transmitted over a bandwidth that only supports 1/2 a bit, and it takes 3.5 years to reach the Voyager
This is the exact bit of data I was searching for, thanks a bunch.