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NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

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Re: NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

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You were correct — it did brick the probe. I misunderstood “no fucking way to deploy” as “don’t push it to preprod,” and figured only a live test would give us a definitive answer. That one’s on me. I owe you an apology. On the bright side, Voyager 2 died so Voyager 3 could be future-proof.

This is literally triggering, and I don't say that lightly.

I know the feeling, I was triggered when I wrote it. Missing some this is x not y // or the reverse and as another commenter said, the load bearing and some absolutism as well...

Re: NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

#84

- stupid question: how much energy, power and what kind of systems would you need to run something for 80000 years to go all the way to proxima centauri - how many redudancies would you need, how would it affect the payload? - what kind of materials?

Relevant for Voyager I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQTfUB9AAnM&t=0

Re: NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

#86

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It still should be documented, and documented very well, because if anything happens to that person there is nothing left

Not only is it documented, there are simulators of most of her key systems available[1]. [1]: https://github.com/Zaneham/voyager-fds-emulator

The AI slop readme is a real turn off. Makes me question the quality/accuracy of the rest of the project.
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