Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth

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Post by my12parsecs » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 1:07 PM UTC

Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
cnn.com

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Post by 29athrowaway » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:23 PM UTC

> Voyager 1 is currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth

Voyager 1 is the farthest man-made object from Earth.

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Post by smitty1110 » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:24 PM UTC

A less alarmist and clickbait article can be found here: https://www.popsci.com/science/voyager-computer-issue/

NASA press release here: https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2023/12/12/engineers-working-...

TL;DR - Voyager is sending back bad data, they're working on it.

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Post by palemoonale » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:27 PM UTC

Thats so sad... Major Tom to Earth. I hope V1 keeps being a part of life to come.

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Post by willcipriano » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:33 PM UTC

29athrowaway wrote: post #2

> Voyager 1 is currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth Voyager 1 is the farthest man-made object from Earth.

I wonder if we will ever pass Voyager 1. Might be the farthest for a long time.

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Post by pjot » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:34 PM UTC

  Voyager 1 is so far away that it takes 22.5 hours for commands sent from Earth to reach the spacecraft. Additionally, the team must wait 45 hours to receive a response.

I’m guessing “hotfix” commits don’t exist in this domain

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Post by deely3 » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:37 PM UTC

29athrowaway wrote: post #2

> Voyager 1 is currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth Voyager 1 is the farthest man-made object from Earth.

> farthest man-made object

that we know about and actively track

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Post by SN76477 » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:38 PM UTC

I would love to see a Voyager 1 simulator.

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Post by malfist » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:39 PM UTC

This is an absolutely terrible headline. Voyager is communicating with Earth, full stop. The data from it's scientific instruments is coming back in a fixed, repeating pattern, meaning we aren't getting anything meaningful from it, but it is absolutely still communicating with Earth.

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Post by detourdog » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:39 PM UTC

willcipriano wrote: post #5

29athrowaway wrote: post #2

> Voyager 1 is currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth Voyager 1 is the farthest man-made object from Earth.

I wonder if we will ever pass Voyager 1. Might be the farthest for a long time.

I remember when the launching of voyager. I would rather be getting bad data than no data.