A communications glitch is preventing NASA's Voyager 1 probe — the farthest spacecraft from Earth in history — from sending home data, and mission scientists are growing concerned.
  • lolcatnipEnglish
    220·
    8 months ago

    It’s a miracle it lasted as long as it did.

      • lolcatnipEnglish
        30·
        8 months ago

        Still very impressive regardless of who did it. Its original mission plan was for a little over 3 years but it worked for 46 years!

        • SpaceNoodle
          60·
          8 months ago8 months ago

          14-15x operational plan isn’t unheard of. The Mars Ingenuity helicopter outperformed by that much as well.

          Done right, engineering does very much resemble magic.