NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.

  • Karyoplasma
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    11 months ago

    How do we know that it’s receiving commands fine? I am assuming pinging Voyager 1 might take a while.

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      11 months ago

      It takes 45 hours and that’s a good question.

      Perhaps there are multiple distinct channels with one for command responses and another for scientific data?