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Voyager 1 loses contact with NASA, turns on retro transmitter not used since 1981 (www.livescience.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Big_Boss_77 5 points 5 months ago

This is the exact bit of data I was searching for, thanks a bunch.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

A hacker has hijacked the communication relay and managed to install Doom on the Voyager. The game runs perfectly but the user interface is reported to be somewhat laggy.