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science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth for the first time in 5 months | CNN

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Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth for the first time in 5 months | CNN

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science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

Engineers finally received a status update from the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after identifying the cause of the aging probe’s five-month communication issue.

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Radiation damage and electrical components degrade by using them.
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  Maybe the ferromagnetic layer got brittle?

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