downpunxx to [email protected] • 6 months agoThe diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offlinearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1384arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1382arrow-down1external-linkThe diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offlinearstechnica.comdownpunxx to [email protected] • 6 months agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squareEndorkendlinkfedilink60•6 months agoThis is just a diagnosis of the problem. That thing is engineered so they can bypass or repurpose ever little bit. Which is probably what they’ll do now, do a software update that will make the system evade the bad memory segment. Voyager has 3 computers and only 1 is affected.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-26 months agoDid they use 3 different types of memory? If one is failing after 45 years I’d think the odds of the other similar memory possibly failing as well is possible
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This is just a diagnosis of the problem.
That thing is engineered so they can bypass or repurpose ever little bit.
Which is probably what they’ll do now, do a software update that will make the system evade the bad memory segment.
Voyager has 3 computers and only 1 is affected.
Did they use 3 different types of memory? If one is failing after 45 years I’d think the odds of the other similar memory possibly failing as well is possible
Ain’t dead yet.