downpunxx@fedia.io to Technology@lemmy.world · 5 months agoThe diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offlinearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1385arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: science@lemmy.world
arrow-up1382arrow-down1external-linkThe diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offlinearstechnica.comdownpunxx@fedia.io to Technology@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square40fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: science@lemmy.world
minus-squareXeroxCool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up63arrow-down5·5 months agoRIP. Rest in Interstellar sPace
minus-squareEndorkend@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up59·5 months agoThis is just a diagnosis of the problem. That thing is engineered so they can bypass or repurpose ever little bit. Which is probably what they’ll do now, do a software update that will make the system evade the bad memory segment. Voyager has 3 computers and only 1 is affected.
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoDid they use 3 different types of memory? If one is failing after 45 years I’d think the odds of the other similar memory possibly failing as well is possible
RIP. Rest in Interstellar sPace
This is just a diagnosis of the problem.
That thing is engineered so they can bypass or repurpose ever little bit.
Which is probably what they’ll do now, do a software update that will make the system evade the bad memory segment.
Voyager has 3 computers and only 1 is affected.
Did they use 3 different types of memory? If one is failing after 45 years I’d think the odds of the other similar memory possibly failing as well is possible
Ain’t dead yet.