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.
    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      3·
      9 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@lemmy.world
        6·
        9 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.