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What’s wild to me is

Although it may take several months, the engineers say they can find a workaround to run the FDS without the fried chip — restoring the spacecraft’s messaging output and enabling it to continue to send readable information from outside our solar system.

Like there is such limited hardware on that thing, and we communicate with it in such low bandwidth signals, it’s such a testament to the engineers behind the project that it can still be customized 46 years later, being outside the solar system, to overcome failing hardware

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Fantastic documentary on the engineers for Voyager:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt17658964/

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Same thought, it’s absolutely astonishing

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Imagine what we could do now if we launched another Voyager.

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It would run a Twitter stack on a Windows server and reboot itself every Monday morning.

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The planetary alignment that allowed for the first 2 Voyager missions won’t reoccur for nearly a century.

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