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1. AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 21:20:18 UTC AkaSci 🛰️

   In the blog post at https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/, Voyager engineers point out the difficulty in diagnosing problems and crafting solutions for a spacecraft with a signal round-trip-time of almost 2 days and hardware/software developed over 46 years ago using technology long since obsolete.

   "Finding solutions to challenges the probes encounter often entails consulting original, decades-old documents written by engineers who didn’t anticipate the issues that are arising today."

   #Voyager
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   • AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 21:20:18 UTC AkaSci 🛰️

     in reply to

     NASA DSN in Goldstone, CA is currently receiving the downlink from Voyager 1 at a reduced rate of 40 bps. No uplink at this moment.

     Apparently, Voyager 1 switched data rate (160 -> 40 bps) & did a full memory read-out of her Attitude and Articulation Control Subsystem, Flight Data Subsystem, and Command Computer Subsystems A&B.
     Transmission time = 6 hours
     Download size = ~108 kBytes

     Here's hoping that the received data is not 0101... 🤞

     https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
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