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NASA Solves Mystery Glitch on '70s Vintage Voyager 1 Spacecraft...The most distant spacecraft from Earth has been feeling its age.
CNet ^ | Aug. 30, 2022 11:56 a.m. PT | Amanda Kooser

Posted on 08/30/2022 12:57:28 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 08/30/2022 12:57:28 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
...Feeling its age...

I sense a fellow traveler.
2 posted on 08/30/2022 1:00:19 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy

V-ger sends its greetings..........................๐Ÿ˜‰


3 posted on 08/30/2022 1:02:23 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
The Voyager is 14.6 billion miles away and NASA can talk to it and control it.

I can see the cellular tower light blinking from a distant hilltop and yet can't get a phone signal.

4 posted on 08/30/2022 1:03:36 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: ComputerGuy

Of course there’s a lot of space out in space, but it amazes me that these probes have been able to travel so long and far without thus far being knocked silly by some errant chuck of space rock.


5 posted on 08/30/2022 1:03:38 PM PDT by fidelis (๐Ÿ‘ˆ Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: Red Badger

Glitch , reminds me of the The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 2015 movie ,LOL


6 posted on 08/30/2022 1:05:28 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger
Glitch? You mean the hair thing?


7 posted on 08/30/2022 1:06:09 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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Webb gets dinged right after it deploys and Voyager keeps maintaining its low profile. An incredible accomplishment.


8 posted on 08/30/2022 1:06:49 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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The fix involved telling the AACS to switch back to the correct computer for sending data.

While the solution sounds simple, the glitch hints at the possibility of a deeper problem. Engineers don't know why the glitch cropped up in the first place, but another computer sending a faulty command could be the culprit.

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9 posted on 08/30/2022 1:07:36 PM PDT by Ezekiel (๐Ÿ†˜๏ธ๐“Šน ๐“Œƒ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars โ™‚๏ธ)
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Somebody open hailing frequencies with Laz...


10 posted on 08/30/2022 1:07:44 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Red Badger

Can’t remember why it went out there in the first place?


11 posted on 08/30/2022 1:09:18 PM PDT by P.O.E.
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NASA Solves Mystery Glitch on '70s Vintage Voyager 1 Spacecraft

Oh they say that NOW.

Wait til it come back with a chip on its shoulderโ€ฆ

12 posted on 08/30/2022 1:10:36 PM PDT by Magnatron
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Hey, if there’s a problem, just send a repairman.


13 posted on 08/30/2022 1:11:45 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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nasa is hoping it crashes into an alien satellite so that they can get their repairs done...

V-ger indeed


14 posted on 08/30/2022 1:12:05 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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When that thing was engineered, a lot of us were still using slide rules. An HP handheld calculator was still like magic.


15 posted on 08/30/2022 1:12:20 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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Star Trek the movie may have been prophetic.


16 posted on 08/30/2022 1:12:28 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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Ping.


17 posted on 08/30/2022 1:14:30 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Red Badger; dfwgator

Just wait until it meets a bald-headed woman....

Bald-headed woman to me.... /Bee Gees


18 posted on 08/30/2022 1:16:20 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: teeman8r

See if you can steer it away from the alien probe that met Nomad.

It had a rather nasty disposition towards imperfections and error.

Must sterilize.......


19 posted on 08/30/2022 1:18:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ComputerGuy
Webb gets dinged right after it deploys and Voyager keeps maintaining its low profile.

Considerable difference in size. The JWST has those 18 hexagon mirror elements at a diameter of 6.5 meters where the Voyager's largest component, its primary radio dish is a mere 3.7 meters. Barn door versus a swallow.

20 posted on 08/30/2022 1:23:39 PM PDT by SES1066 (More & more it looks like Brandon's best decision was Kamala! UGH!)
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