Well in a way Voyager 1 and 2 are bran new relative to the age of the universe.
But for us they are from 1977 which is 47 years old, bombarded by cosmic rays and what not. It’s crazy they still have power.
It’s amazing NASA has succeeded establishing contact again 24 billion kilometers away, they really have some crazy good people working there then and now.TIL that both Voyager craft are still operating, simply amazing.
Didn’t the small amount of memory they had just completely stop working? I’d love to see or hear how they managed to reprogram this damn thing and make it work again. Amazing.
It did die- one specific chip carrying the code for packaging the data for transmittal died. They kind of described it in this article. So they are now partitioning out the memory left in other parts of the computer system and copying small portions of the packaging code into those other memory blocks so it can still be successfully run.
The fact that any electronic component on this probe still works is just freaking wild.
It’s knowledge has reached the limits of the Universe, and it must evolve…
I wonder what kind of simulators they use to test their code.
First update it sent back:
it has no eyes : itcanstillseemeit has no eyes : itcanstillseemeit has no eyes : itcanstillseemeit has no eyes : itcanstillseeme
