Contact restored with NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe
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NASA has regained full contact with the Voyager 1 space probe, the most distant human-made object in the universe, scientists announced Monday.

Voyager 1 contact restored

  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
    34·
    7 months ago

    The problem was that Voyager sent junk data back to us due to a memory fault. It was still responsive to receive updates from Earth and to pings.

    Pinging Voyager 1 takes about 2 days, so testing updates is naturally quite slow.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      7 months ago

      Not only round trip time, the hardware only supports bandwidth of 160bps at this range. Down from the 21.6kbps at launch.