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Re:NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to E... by wkat4242 on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @06:09PM (#40137951)
It's radioactive so the half-life has a serious effect. Its half-life is 87 years so it's not even used up one. I guess it wasn't really very overdimensioned. But it wasn't meant to last this long.
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