downpunxx@fedia.io to Technology@lemmy.world · 7 months agoThe diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offlinearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1386arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: science@lemmy.world
arrow-up1383arrow-down1external-linkThe diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offlinearstechnica.comdownpunxx@fedia.io to Technology@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square40fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: science@lemmy.world
minus-squareEndorkend@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up60·7 months agoThis is just a diagnosis of the problem. That thing is engineered so they can bypass or repurpose ever little bit. Which is probably what they’ll do now, do a software update that will make the system evade the bad memory segment. Voyager has 3 computers and only 1 is affected.
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-27 months agoDid they use 3 different types of memory? If one is failing after 45 years I’d think the odds of the other similar memory possibly failing as well is possible
This is just a diagnosis of the problem.
That thing is engineered so they can bypass or repurpose ever little bit.
Which is probably what they’ll do now, do a software update that will make the system evade the bad memory segment.
Voyager has 3 computers and only 1 is affected.
Did they use 3 different types of memory? If one is failing after 45 years I’d think the odds of the other similar memory possibly failing as well is possible