The four instruments on NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft are returning science data for the first time since a computer malfunction last November.
  • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Respect to the computer scientist who sorted that out. That has got to be an extremely satisfying bug to fix.

    • Scirocco@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months ago

      They figured out how to resolve it weeks ago.

      It has taken this long to implement the results, and to get usable data flowing again

      • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        They’re basically rewriting the software, and if it goes horribly wrong, the probe will just stop talking forever. So no one was in a big rush to push this into production.

        • Scirocco@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 month ago

          But, it worked!

          They have actually done it, the madlads

          (What’s the gender neutral equivalent of madlads?)