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The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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