#NASA: Voyager 1 is winding down to silence. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 14 December 2023
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#NASA: Voyager 1 is winding down to silence. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/voyager-1-has-computer-issues/
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| 0:37.0 | Voyager 1, Viger. What kind of trouble, Bob? |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, Voyager 2, the other spacecraft beyond the solar system had problems in August. |
| 0:45.5 | They got it fixed. |
| 0:46.6 | Voyager 1 now has had some computer problems, and one of the three on board computers |
| 0:52.4 | had a problem. |
| 0:53.5 | It was not sending back usable data. |
| 0:57.1 | The engineers are troubleshooting it. |
| 0:59.2 | They hope in a couple of weeks to get the problem fixed. |
| 1:02.2 | Both of these spacecraft are going to run out of power sometime in 25 |
| 1:06.5 | after almost a half century in space operating. They are the oldest continuous running computers ever built having run to them. |
| 1:16.0 | What is it now, 50 years almost. |
| 1:18.0 | But the Voyager one, they might recover it, they might not. |
| 1:22.0 | But even if they do recover it the the spacecraft will run out of |
| 1:25.0 | power in about two years. |
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