“Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally.”

  • Mikelius@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    It always amazes me that they’re able to do so much for voyager after all these years. Had I been the one to make it, I’d be like “space junk now” after the first problem because I doubt I would have come up with all the amazing redundancies they did.

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    7 months ago

    Considering it’s operating without backup since 1982, we’re incredibly lucky that system hadn’t failed until now.

    The manufacturer deserve some credit too.

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    7 months ago

    I think I take exception to the adjective “bad” in the title. Failing after 45+ years in service is pretty damn good, I think.