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Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth (edition.cnn.com)
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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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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months 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!