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@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2024-03-10 16:35:32

JPL’s #Voyager team ‘extremely hopeful’ after ailing, faraway craft shows signs of former self: #Voyager1 is finally transmitting patterns of 1’s and 0’s that look familiar to the engineers, so "the FDS is at least partially working." Oh, and 45 years ago Linda Morabito discovered the first two active volcanos on #Io in a picture taken by Voyager 1 at high phase angle: here is a screenshot of Mor. & al., Science 204, 972 (1 June 1979) . yep, it's nor even one page long.

@chris_hayes@fosstodon.org
2024-04-06 18:16:39

There's hope for Voyager 1
arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/

NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix
"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."

@marcel@waldvogel.family
2024-04-23 05:24:53

Wow! Doing the work of the linker/loader remotely, with 45 hours delay for every command. And nobody within 24 billion km to power cycle the device, if anything goes wrong…
Congratulations to the #Voyager engineering team at #NASA!

@crell@phpc.social
2024-05-08 10:55:30

Career goals. Absolute programming badasses.
#NASA #programming #Voyager

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1. The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA. So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized t…
@drahardja@sfba.social
2024-04-23 02:43:41

Holy shit, they fixed it.
Voyager 1 had a failed chip, and the engineering team patched around it.
Put THAT on your resumé. FUCKING BADASS.
#voyager1 #softwareEngineering
“NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth”

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2024-04-06 09:11:35

Great news from my favorite spacecraft #Voyager1
arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/

NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix
"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."

@juandesant@astrodon.social
2024-04-23 00:25:49

Yay! Thanks, more than 50 years old engineers that thought of almost anything for a mission that was not supposed to last this long… and thanks to the current engineers that are carrying the torch!
#VoyagerI #Voyager

kottke.org (@kottke@botsin.space)
They fixed it: NASA is able to talk to Voyager I again. “For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems.” https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

@ellie@ellieayla.net
2024-03-14 17:36:51

Do I anthropomorphize the rovers and probes as inquisitive puppies and birds? Yes. Yes I do.
#curiosity #discovery #voyager #pioneer

@srueegger@swiss.social
2024-04-06 09:00:51

Wenn man seine Kindheits TV-Helden 25 Jahre später in einem Podcast sieht. 😍
#starttrek #voyager

@dichotomiker@dresden.network
2024-04-23 07:29:35

#TIL #Voyager is unable to tour 2024 because of singer's cancer 😬
youtube.com/watch?v=pbgXe23BlJ

@cdarwin@c.im
2024-04-23 14:02:11

For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity’s most distant spacecraft in the cosmos.
#Voyager1 is currently about 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away, and at 46 years old,
the probe has shown multiple quirks and signs of aging in recent years.
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@srueegger@swiss.social
2024-03-22 18:18:47

Ich bin ein Nerd 😅
#startrek #lego #voyager