NASA lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft for nearly a week after a technical glitch shut off the probe's main transmitter. Using Voyager's weaker backup transmitter, engineers are assessing the problem from 15 billion miles away.
  • uservoid1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Every few months there is a similar such story about this ancient marvel of technology and the people remotely maintaining it against all odds.

    I can imagine a headline 100 years from now:

    “Engineers are modifying Voyager 1 decorative panel bolt into a functional interstellar communicator”