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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: SiliconWizard on August 20, 2023, 09:58:27 pm
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https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-loses-contact-voyager-2-sent-wrong-command-mistake-space-2023-8?r=US&IR=T (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-loses-contact-voyager-2-sent-wrong-command-mistake-space-2023-8?r=US&IR=T)
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https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-loses-contact-voyager-2-sent-wrong-command-mistake-space-2023-8?r=US&IR=T (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-loses-contact-voyager-2-sent-wrong-command-mistake-space-2023-8?r=US&IR=T)
You are late to the game. They designed the Voyager probes to re-align automatically. But they also sent some other commands to start this process earlier which has happened succesfully in the mean time. So nothing is lost.
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https://hackaday.com/2023/08/04/voyager-2-communication-reestablished-with-one-big-shout/
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Like certain famous comedians, writers and others, the reports of Voyager 2s death has proven premature.
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Like certain famous comedians, writers and others, the reports of Voyager 2s death has proven premature.
Indeed. There was a scare for a bit, but there are some smart minds around - some back in the 70s and some contemporary - that brought things back to nominal.
Those people have my respect. :-+
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https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-loses-contact-voyager-2-sent-wrong-command-mistake-space-2023-8?r=US&IR=T (https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-loses-contact-voyager-2-sent-wrong-command-mistake-space-2023-8?r=US&IR=T)
I think you need to check the date of the articles you read. It's usually at the top.
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We all get caught out from time to time not realising news is old news. Used to happen all the time on the FB.
I am just pleased that its still going. I just wish they would send some more modern probes with the idea they could keep going further and still communicate beyond my lifetime.
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I am waiting for the year 5023 post about someone touching up a solder joint on voyager so it can be communicated with again
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I am waiting for the year 5023 post about someone touching up a solder joint on voyager so it can be communicated with again
That solder joint hasn't failed in the last 50 years. If it fails sometime in the next 3000 is it really a bad joint?
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I am waiting for the year 5023 post about someone touching up a solder joint on voyager so it can be communicated with again
I guess they'd charge $100 for fixing the joint, and $100,000,000,000 for the travel charge.
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It could be worse: they might have to take it into the shop...
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Perhaps a human interstellar civilisation would leave Voyager travelling on its way, keeping track of it so tourist ships could pay it a visit.
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Perhaps a human interstellar civilisation would leave Voyager travelling on its way, keeping track of it so tourist ships could pay it a visit.
That is, if they survive the "interstellar shout".
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I am waiting for the year 5023 post about someone touching up a solder joint on voyager so it can be communicated with again
That solder joint hasn't failed in the last 50 years. If it fails sometime in the next 3000 is it really a bad joint?
yeah because you know that some guy forgot to clean the flux off after tinning and then did a solder joint that was covered in icky spent flux or some other thing. way to let down civilization to get early lunch
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I am waiting for the year 5023 post about someone touching up a solder joint on voyager so it can be communicated with again
I guess they'd charge $100 for fixing the joint, and $100,000,000,000 for the travel charge.
so basically a tank of gas with inflation?
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I am waiting for the year 5023 post about someone touching up a solder joint on voyager so it can be communicated with again
My sources suggest it will return for repair around 2270.