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Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth (edition.cnn.com)
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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.

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[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do we know that it's receiving commands fine? I am assuming pinging Voyager 1 might take a while.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It takes 45 hours and that’s a good question.

Perhaps there are multiple distinct channels with one for command responses and another for scientific data?

[–] duplexsystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

It takes 20+ hours so since the announcement and now they could have send a command and gotten a response