Comment on Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth

onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• H_Interlinked@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thanks, Uncle Facebook.

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• crackajack@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thankfully, NASA is non-profit so they won’t ever do that.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They don’t manufacture their equipment.

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    • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They don’t, but they manage the people that do and pay for it

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    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I believe they still make the probes and rovers.

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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Shrug, Opportunity is much newer and still lasted about a thousand times longer than its design length.

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But it’s got 70 terabits of storage! We closed over 1700 issues on this thing! My god we must have spent 13 billion on it so far!

  How can it be failing? I mean just … just … look at the numbers!

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