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Voyager 1 is fully back online months after it stopped making sense. (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I still can't believe how this one comes back again and again. One of the greatest feat of humanity.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's insane what these people do. They're rewriting code from the 60s to use even less memory, have to test it in production without physical access, and it takes two days to see if anything changes. It's an insane piece of engineering and it's incredible that it's still sending useful data.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd love to see what their test environments are like. You can't test everything, but they can certainly test some things. A raspberry pi has more software capability.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

They have a second probe in the shop to test. Thankfully.