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NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument, More Power Cuts Ahead to Keep Both Probes Going (gizmodo.com)

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[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Everything about these two spacecraft is just amazing. It's going to be quite a sad day when they transmit their last byte of data to our little planet. Reading about all the things we've done to keep talking to them. The redundancies that they're running on etc... Fascinating stuff

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's really fucking wild that they can still operate at all.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And there's a second layer of it being wild that we can even communicate with them, despite being outside of the solar system, and being 50 years old.

[–] HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz 14 points 5 months ago

Oh noo I'm literally using Voyager to browse Lemmy

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago

Flyby: The Interplanetary Odyssey of Voyager 2 - Joel Davis (1987)

Lots of behind the scenes stuff of innovation, discovery, and making adjustments for things that went wrong.