Comment on NASA engineers discover why Voyager 1 is sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system

SomeGuy69@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• nezbyte@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  FWIW, the voyager probes have 69.63 kB of ram to work with.

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  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE

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• Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or just send a ship out to retrieve, repair, and release it.

  I’d like to see some math on how long it would take a fully orbit refilled Starship to reach it and return.

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  • scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Someone send Elon… I’m sure it will be a quick trip so no need for extensive rations.

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  • lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This could be the 2050 X Prize.

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  • Kelly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    what-if.xkcd.com/38/

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  • wyyomin@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    for the cost of doing that, it’d probably be better to invest the time and resources in a new satellite all together. it’s kinda the same dilemma as the Wait Calculation

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• Mikufan@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lets hope it’s possible but the thing is basically a Artifact by nowadays standards, so the probability is low, if its physically damaged its basically dead.

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  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The First Artifact. I like it.

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• Confused_Emus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Answered in the article.

  “Although it may take several months, the engineers say they can find a workaround to run the FDS without the fried chip — restoring the spacecraft’s messaging output and enabling it to continue to send readable information from outside our solar system.”

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah they’re gonna have to send somebody out there

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  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe there is already somebody out there, who is manipulating the signal. 👽

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