Voyager 1 is likely dead

[ImJustKCClone]

I always felt TT might be a little bit suspect as "higher education", but, good grief.

Oh dear...
He's been talking to my cousin down there. She's a true believer.

 

[KidSilverhair]

Is the thread reminding everyone how old they are? I think when I was a kid 50 year old fighting aircraft were just coming out of the bi-plane era.

Naw, that can’t be right, I was a kid in the 1960s, 50 years before that they weren’t flying biplanes … oh. Wait a minute.

 

[jcyclonee]

One of you nerds has to be able to explain to me how this can start working again. Was it passing through some kind of radiation field? Did it get closer to some kind of light source? Did Voyager run into a female Voyager and decide it wanted some privacy?

 

[Cyhig]

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

 

[mred]

One of you nerds has to be able to explain to me how this can start working again. Was it passing through some kind of radiation field? Did it get closer to some kind of light source? Did Voyager run into a female Voyager and decide it wanted some privacy?

Basically, a memory chip failed, and they had to tell Voyager to painstakingly move the code on that chip to a different memory location.

After months of silence, Voyager 1 has returned NASA's calls

The spacecraft launched in 1977 and is now 15 billion miles from Earth. It went silent in November. Scientists at JPL figured out how to get it talking again.

www.latimes.com

By March, the team had figured out that a memory chip that stored some of the flight data system’s software code had failed, turning the craft’s outgoing communications into gibberish.

A long-distance repair wasn’t possible. There wasn’t enough space anywhere in the system to shift the code in its entirety. So after manually reviewing the code line by line, engineers broke it up and tucked the pieces into the available slots of memory.

They sent a command to Voyager on Thursday. In the early morning hours Saturday, the team gathered around a conference table at JPL: laptops open, coffee and boxes of doughnuts in reach.

At 6:41 a.m., data from the craft showed up on their screens. The fix had worked.

 

[jcyclonee]

Basically, a memory chip failed, and they had to tell Voyager to painstakingly move the code on that chip to a different memory location.

After months of silence, Voyager 1 has returned NASA's calls

The spacecraft launched in 1977 and is now 15 billion miles from Earth. It went silent in November. Scientists at JPL figured out how to get it talking again.

www.latimes.com

Thank you

 

[BoxsterCy]

“There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive." - Miracle Max

 

[KidSilverhair]

One of you nerds has to be able to explain to me how this can start working again. Was it passing through some kind of radiation field? Did it get closer to some kind of light source? Did Voyager run into a female Voyager and decide it wanted some privacy?

Aliens fixed it.

 

[KidSilverhair]

Basically, a memory chip failed, and they had to tell Voyager to painstakingly move the code on that chip to a different memory location.

After months of silence, Voyager 1 has returned NASA's calls

The spacecraft launched in 1977 and is now 15 billion miles from Earth. It went silent in November. Scientists at JPL figured out how to get it talking again.

www.latimes.com

So these guys can remotely fix a computer issue 15 billion miles away but if I have an issue with my internet it’s either “too bad, live with it” or “we’ll send a guy out in three weeks”? Yeah, right … it was space wizards who did it.

 

[mred]

So these guys can remotely fix a computer issue 15 billion miles away but if I have an issue with my internet it’s either “too bad, live with it” or “we’ll send a guy out in three weeks”? Yeah, right … it was space wizards who did it.

Clearly you need to call NASA to fix your internet.

 

[jcyclonee]

Clearly you need to call NASA to fix your internet.

If there's one thing I learned from Independence Day it's that you call the Cable Guy to fix your space problems.

 

[HFCS]

So these guys can remotely fix a computer issue 15 billion miles away but if I have an issue with my internet it’s either “too bad, live with it” or “we’ll send a guy out in three weeks”? Yeah, right … it was space wizards who did it.

Have you tried restarting your 1977 space craft?

 

[VeloClone]

“There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive." - Miracle Max

"All dead - Well with all dead there is usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change."

 

[Cyrocks]

One of you nerds has to be able to explain to me how this can start working again. Was it passing through some kind of radiation field? Did it get closer to some kind of light source? Did Voyager run into a female Voyager and decide it wanted some privacy?

It reminds of the Star Trek Episode The Changeling.