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    We finally know why NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft stopped communicating — scientists are working on a fix

    ROFLOL! And a hot bald chick delivering the bad news!
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    We finally know why NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft stopped communicating — scientists are working on a fix

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    We finally know why NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft stopped communicating — scientists are working on a fix

    Non-metallic Molycircs and triple redundancy. It'll take them a long time to upload microcode to patch around the bad memory but I think VGER (!) is salvageable!
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    We finally know why NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft stopped communicating — scientists are working on a fix

    I agree and as a retired Aerospace engineer (Honeywell and Raytheon) I know how PCBs of the era in an orbitial environment can grow whiskers causing shorts in the boards and ICs. Lord knows what Voyager is encountering out there in the Oort cloud. Amazing she's still ticking.
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    We finally know why NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft stopped communicating — scientists are working on a fix

    Funny timing for this article, when I am streaming an old Star Trek movie. So, surely this didn't cause a 3 byte glitch removing the O, Y and A from Voyager's name buffer? Get it?
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