NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix
arstechnica.com
"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."

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

  • Endorkend@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    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.