NASA's Voyager 1 mysteriously lost touch with Earth

Posted by entryleveljobsc 7 hours ago

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Comment by soon_to_be_sb 4 hours ago

May be it crossed into an area of space where physics is different.

Comment by hyperhello 47 minutes ago

Maybe it was waiting to go through the inter-solar customs line to get out.

Comment by michelb 2 hours ago

Could it have crashed into something? I find it incredible that that hadn’t happened yet.

Comment by thomascountz 51 minutes ago

On the one hand, it has crashed into a lot of somethings—like cosmic radiation and micrometeorites. On the other hand, there is a lot of space in space, and the chances of Voyager crashing into something of the same or larger scale as itself is infinitesimal.

Comment by tobadzistsini 4 hours ago

"Mysteriously". The gadget is pushing fifty with vintage hardware in a hostile environment. One could say a 90 year old grandma was asleep, presumed dead, and when the paramedics showed she woke up with, "What's all the fuss?"

Comment by snailmailman 2 hours ago

At the same time, every component and line of code is known. Presumably they can simulate and test for all sorts of crazy exotic problems and error cases. It’s surprising that they’ve hit a new type of problem.

Comment by chiengineer3 4 hours ago

I hope it's not because I used chatgpt to find signals outside of the internet and it successfully connected to voyager 1 somehow lmao

Comment by asanineassasin 5 hours ago

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