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
    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.