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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.

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[–] sneezymrmilo@lemmy.world 92 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Would you consider someone screaming gibberish at you, communicating?

[–] sneezymrmilo@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

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"

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

It’s not gibberish. It’s alien for “Sorry, no interstellar science for you”

[–] duplexsystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Flight data is like the log of sensor data right?

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago
[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

People do this on a daily basis.