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NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

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Re: NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

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Post by dylan604 »

Salgat wrote: post #47
AstroJetson wrote: post #45

Yep, 45 years old hardware, still getting software updates. Hey Apple, JPL is close to you, can you get someone to bike over and see how they do it? Thanks!

I bet for a billion they could make a single device that lasts decades too.

and a nuclear battery to last decades. oh, and stagnant software that doesn't get updates meant to work for other hardware

Re: NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

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Post by IncreasePosts »

anotherhue wrote: post #2

Incredible to see the same faces in that photo as in the excellent documentary: https://www.itsquieterfilm.com/ Voyager might make it to 2027.

The documentary only came out less than 2 years ago, one would imagine most of the same people would be there - though I don't see Jefferson Hall.

Re: NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

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Post by dx4100 »

dylan604 wrote: post #51
Salgat wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bet for a billion they could make a single device that lasts decades too.

and a nuclear battery to last decades. oh, and stagnant software that doesn't get updates meant to work for other hardware

The average vape has more processing power than Voyager, and the iPhone is orders of magnitude more complex. With that said, it takes skilled engineers to squeeze perfectly crafted code into such a tiny platform from the 70s.

Re: NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

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Post by Night_Thastus »

There's something very beautiful about Voyager's journey so far.

I hope one day when we're a true interstellar species we'll still keep tabs on it. The data may not be useful anymore, but it would be cool to imagine a year 3000 society with a little "Look at where Voyager is now :)" tool that you can see its path and where humans have colonized by comparison.

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