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NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument, More Power Cuts Ahead to Keep Both Probes Going (gizmodo.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Flyby: The Interplanetary Odyssey of Voyager 2 - Joel Davis (1987)

Lots of behind the scenes stuff of innovation, discovery, and making adjustments for things that went wrong.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Oh noo I'm literally using Voyager to browse Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Everything about these two spacecraft is just amazing. It's going to be quite a sad day when they transmit their last byte of data to our little planet. Reading about all the things we've done to keep talking to them. The redundancies that they're running on etc... Fascinating stuff

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's really fucking wild that they can still operate at all.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And there's a second layer of it being wild that we can even communicate with them, despite being outside of the solar system, and being 50 years old.