Swapna Krishna: In case you missed it last week, I delivered a full rundown on how NASA saved Voyager 1 over these last few months. It really is an incredible story of ingenuity and troubleshooting an almost 50-year-old computer over 15 billion miles. Newsletter version: www.adastraspace.com/p/nasa-saved... 🛰️🔭🧪

In case you missed it last week, I delivered a full rundown on how NASA saved Voyager 1 over these last few months. It really is an incredible story of ingenuity and troubleshooting an almost 50-year-old computer over 15 billion miles. Newsletter version: www.adastraspace.com/p/nasa-saved... 🛰️🔭🧪

How NASA saved Voyager 1youtu.be On November 14, 2023, Voyager 1 started sending back gibberish. Many, including those who worked on the spacecraft, thought this might be the end for the spacecraft. But the science and engineering team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory persevered. With some ingenious interstellar troubleshooting and firmware updates from 15 billion miles away, NASA’s team at JPL pulled off a miracle. Here's how they did it. 🔭 SUPPORT AD ASTRA Patreon ➔ https://www.patreon.com/swapnakrishna 💫 FIND ME Ad Astra Newsletter (links + images) ➔ https://www.adastraspace.com Instagram/Threads ➔ https://instagram.com/skrishna TikTok ➔ https://www.tiktok.com/@swapna_krishna Twitter ➔ https://twitter.com/skrishna Mastodon ➔ https://wandering.shop/@skrishna Bluesky ➔ https://bsky.app/profile/swapnakrishna.com ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Introduction 00:25 - The problem 04:14 - The history 07:32 - The solution 🛰️ SUBSCRIBE For more space and STEM videos, subscribe to Ad Astra: @adastraspace

I have been using NASA TV as my main tv station and wow are those folks ever smart and inventive.

Still a fear of incredible engineering that this thing built nearly 50 years ago has entered interstellar space and is still communicating and sharing data.

Lots of documentaries about past missions and how they dealt with problems.

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Great work!

Thank you!

You're welcome. I do space writing (including book reviews for Ad Astra a long time ago) and the state of space reporting in the general media is dismal. mattbille.blogspot.com/2024/06/spac...

Space Exploration: An Epic Weekmattbille.blogspot.com A science writer's blog on science and technology, especially conservation, new species, space exploration, space history, microsatellites, and NASA.

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