“Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally.”
“Bad” memory that lasts 45 years in interplanetary space.
#BringVoyagerHome
As soon as we invent FTL I’m sure we will
Let’s focus on FTV first
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Bring it home…?
This is going to be one tough RMA…
All orbits are elliptical. Eventually, it will.
It’s not in an orbit. Well, it technically is, but it moved far enough away that that orbit no longer intersects with the solar system’s SOI. That was the whole point of the voyager probes, to go out into deep space. That’s why we sent them out with our mix tapes
You’re saying the same thing by a different route. It’s orbit through the galaxy eventually comes back around to us.
Incidently, this is also why we can’t just send nuclear waste on a solar escape trajectory. It eventually comes back.
It won’t have started getting closer again before the Milky Way collides with the Adromeda galaxy in 5 Billion years, so it and anything we send on a similar path isn’t coming back.
isn’t it on an escape trajectory?
Is it in orbit? And more importantly, is it in orbit around us?
It is, but not around us. It doesn’t matter, because that orbit still comes back around.
It won’t necessarily come back. Till the orbits of Voyager and the Solar system intersect, we would’ve merged with Andromeda, which would completely change all orbits in unpredictable ways. So no, you cannot say with confidence that Voyager will return back to the Solar system before the Sun dies purely using orbital mechanics.
I would believe that if the universe was not constantly expanding, that would be mathematically true. I’m not mathematician, but I think with a constantly expanding universe, that’s not a mathematical certainty.
As I understand it, expansion doesn’t really affect local systems like galaxies directly/significantly. It’s not really a factor for voyager returning or not.
Maybe in some perfect high school physics problem context. Ever heard of the three body problem? How about the million body problem zooming through the galaxy?
Why would be expect a deep space probe to return to earth when it’s going to interact with many objects with millions of times the mass of the earth?
No worries. That portion of memory only contained the ‘oya’ portion of it’s name. It will continue on, known now as Vger.
Like most of you, my brain ingests random things and chews on them to produce weird nonsensical things, like when I go to the Midwestern US supercenter chain Meijer, I say if it somehow went into deep space, went through a black hole, and returned two hundred years later, it would be known as M’jer.
I think of this every time I’m there.
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Futurama also did their own version https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/V-Chip
RIP. Rest in Interstellar sPace
This is just a diagnosis of the problem.
That thing is engineered so they can bypass or repurpose ever little bit.
Which is probably what they’ll do now, do a software update that will make the system evade the bad memory segment.
Voyager has 3 computers and only 1 is affected.
Did they use 3 different types of memory? If one is failing after 45 years I’d think the odds of the other similar memory possibly failing as well is possible
Ain’t dead yet.
Hell yeah! My favourite space probes, those two.
I know Voy1 will lose power soon anyway, but until then keep fighting right to the end!
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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“Bad memory”. tpsh. That memory exceeded it’s mandate by 41 years. That memory is tired. it needed rest. It’s ready to collect it’s retirement pension.
A bit of dementia.
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Even space probes are susceptible to dementia it seems.
Most manufacture have a lifetime warranty with their memory sticks.
“Bring it into the shop, we’ll replace the stick for free.”
It still is amazing it lasted a long time.