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.