Archived After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters (arstechnica.com)
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Archived After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters (arstechnica.com)
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[–] ArsCortica 0 points 20 points 20 points (+20|-0) ago
About time that old lardass got moving again.
In all seriousness though - the fact that this old piece of hardware still replies - nevermind the titanic distance between it and Earth atop of that - is nothing short of amazing.
[–] prairie 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago (edited ago)
And it's not just that the hardware is still functioning, but that they designed it so that it didn't get into some stuck state where we couldn't communicate with it anymore even though the hardware was undamaged. How long does your cellphone/computer go without needing a reboot?
[–] this_is_my_4th_acct 3 points -3 points 0 points (+0|-3) ago
How many more processes are occurring on your phone vs the satellites thrusters?
[–] RiverWind 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It is amazing that they managed to sustain 37 years of uptime in outer space.
In Elite: Dangerous, the space computer game, you can fly your spaceship and rendezvous with Voyager.
Way to go, NASA! Those slide rules, eh?!
[–] The_Cat 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Didn't they need to reset it at some point because a bit got flipped by cosmic radiation?