NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.
For those who didn’t read the article, voyager 1 is still sending and transmitting data. It’s stuck in a loop sending the same packets to Earth on repeat but it is receiving commands just fine. It’s not completely dark.
So the title did its job which is you understand nothing until you enter their site, drive traffic, display ads, and possibly collect your data in the process.
Sure and Lemmy did its work by letting me and others relay the info. I hate ads as much as the next guy, especially targeted ads, but the internet is free and I don’t pay CNN a dime so I’ll take the hit for you this time. Next time, you click the clickbait and fill us in ☺️
possibly collect your data in the process
Nooo they respect your privacy just share your stuff with 967 of their partners
Good because I drew the line at 969
Ads are a shitty part of the internet experience, but what exactly is your point here…?
My point is the title in journalism went from a summary of the story to a confusing false statement that might give you a hint of what the story is about.
In this story the title is clearly saying Voyager has stopped communicating with Earth which is false.
My point is the title in journalism went from a summary of the story to a confusing false statement that might give you a hint of what the story is about.
This is what we get when nobody wants to pay for news anymore. The fact that news media had to turn to ad-funded models is the fault of everybody who refuses to pay for their news
The main issue here isn’t ads. The issue is straight up false titles.
I understand if they opted for vague summary. But false statement is where i draw the line.
And the reason why they have to resort to clickbait titles is to get people on their site for ad views
Clickbait and false statements are two different things.
If I write a title saying “Joe Biden resigned” and then talk about how most Americans wants Joe to resign this is considered a false statement.
But if I write “Americans wants only one thing” then this is a clickbait.
Are we sure it isn’t YouTube trying to insert an ad?
This is the dumbest thing I’ve read today. You got a giggle out of me.
How do we know that it’s receiving commands fine? I am assuming pinging Voyager 1 might take a while.
It takes 20+ hours so since the announcement and now they could have send a command and gotten a response
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God forbid we pollute the far reaches of space with radiation. (sic.)
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As a smoker: I’m not clueless, I just don’t love myself more than the addiction. But I’m getting there, cause breathing “easily” is an under-rated pleasure, when compared to… not breathing that well
It can take time to break the mental stuff before breaking the habit, regardless of understood risk
Now magnets though… I’m at a complete fucking loss
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RTGs are still used for outer solar system missions. Not enough light for solar panels. Hell, even the Perseverance Mars rover, which was launched in 2020, has an RTG.
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I wonder if it’s struggling with Parity Checks?
It’s gonna be a real pain in the ass to get a tech out there and look at it
Good thing we have cheap labor at your disposal!
Elon, get the fuck up there. Take bozos.
They should go check out the Titanic first
uh have they tried rebooting it?
I don’t blame it for cutting off earth. This place is toxic and self destructive.
Love your name. Greatest band in human history.
H off that album is one of my all time fav songs
Bit of a misleading title. The voyager can still receive commands and send data to earth, the problem is that instead of useful data it just keeps sending repeating code of no use. Not a huge fan of these sensationalized and just blatantly wrong news article titles.
Would you consider someone screaming gibberish at you, communicating?
Haha I mean that’s fair. Although I’m mainly just displeased with the title of the article. Its worded in a way that conveys that we’ve lost contact with the satellite completely, which is not the case. Just a bit too click baity for my tastes.
I didn’t quite read it that way, but I can see how someone could read it that way. It does really seem like the probe is having problems with its internals, less than “communication has stopped”
From what I read they can talk to the CCS (Computer Command System) just fine but the CCS is getting garbled data from the FDS (Flight Data Subsystem)
Twitter?
People do this on a daily basis.
Imagine if this were built with tech from today. It would be non-functional right after the warranty.
Thanks, Uncle Facebook.
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They don’t manufacture their equipment.
They don’t, but they manage the people that do and pay for it
I believe they still make the probes and rovers.
Shrug, Opportunity is much newer and still lasted about a thousand times longer than its design length.
I have complete faith in Captain Janeway.
Engineers are working to resolve an issue with one of Voyager 1’s three onboard computers, called the flight data system (FDS). The spacecraft is receiving and executing commands sent from Earth; however, the FDS is not communicating properly with one of the probe’s subsystems, called the telemetry modulation unit (TMU). As a result, no science or engineering data is being sent back to Earth.
So now they are going to send engineers to fix/ replace the unit?
Letting a billion dollar piece of equipment go to waste is not very good either.
Pac man iq right here.
I think the pellets he’s been swallowing up were little bits of his brain
Coming from arch Linux, I can relate to that.
Please tell me this is a shitpost.
There are dozens of satellites, and, o’ how ironic that I have mistook this for the reachable ones !
Cut me some slack, I have been reading nothing but books about coding for the past year or so, okay !?
But it’s the VOYAGER Engelbert!
Wags finger disapprovingly
Lol name me 3 of the core components that make up for the structure of the voyager.
The antennae, the dish and the computing stuff.
You kept the bar too low 😂😂😂
Ho !? I didn’t know you had it in you ! 😱
I kind of hoped you would have mentioned any of these: the magnetometer, polarimeter, and the interferometer; or the spectrometer, or the RTG system.
Cut me some slack, I have been reading nothing but books about coding for the past year or so, okay !?
Books about coding? Could you tell the 00’s I said hi?
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The engineers would die of old age before they even caught up to it.
Yep, but it will take them 46 years to fix.
Well considering how far it is… I can only imagine that they are going to let it go due to redundancy. And yet the notion does not escape my mind.
Who knows what solutions we might come up with in the future ?
You know what this means?
Why did they install Windows 11?
Forced update, they took too long to restart.
Didn’t I recently read that they were updating its software?
…typical.
“upgrading”
They forgot to pay the subscription for the
solar panelsRTGsEDIT: I guess it relies more on nuclear than solar
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
They actually did:
The Voyager team sent commands over the weekend for the spacecraft to restart the flight data system, but no usable data has come back yet, according to NASA.
Unfortunately, that didn’t help. So now they’ll have to find out what’s causing this, and then see if they can fix it.
When the new intern presses shut down instead of disconnect while connected to the production server
The question then is why the intern has access to the shut down button.
Management got one IT guy managing the whole infrastructure so everyone who needs anything gets domain admin rights
Ah, time to reconfigure the IP address. Just set that, and *click* bring down network port, and *click* bring it up again… *click* … *click* … oh.
Based on a true story.
Well, I’m 46 and sometimes getting old is hard…
New communications unit who dis?
Was it something we said?
