The four instruments on NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft are returning science data for the first time since a computer malfunction last November.
  • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    6 months ago

    They’re basically rewriting the software, and if it goes horribly wrong, the probe will just stop talking forever. So no one was in a big rush to push this into production.

    • Scirocco@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      But, it worked!

      They have actually done it, the madlads

      (What’s the gender neutral equivalent of madlads?)