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Re:NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will ta... by OatmealDome on Saturday April 06, 2024 @02:28AM (#39950464)
At the time those articles were published, the engineers were analyzing a memory dump received from the spacecraft.

The update in this new article is that they have determined that a memory chip has gone bad.

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Re:NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will ta... by Dalewyn on Saturday April 06, 2024 @02:36AM (#39950487)
This is frankly awesome news, we now know Voyager 1 just needs a Windows Update(tm) to keep on flying. Of course, "just" is putting it mildly to say the least, but I don't want to think how worse the diagnosis could have been.
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