This makes me genuinely happy. Not much uplifting news actually uplifts me these days. This is one of the rare headlines that does.
This legitimately made me sad when I heard they might lose this satellite. It’s the farthest humans have ever sent anything beyond Earth, and it might always be the case. The science data coming back from this is invaluable.
Respect to the computer scientist who sorted that out. That has got to be an extremely satisfying bug to fix.
As a software engineer, I’m still trying to figure out their build pipeline. That thing has got to be interesting.
No documentation, imagine! The original designers–dead. This person had to reverse engineer every aspect of that system, though I can’t imagine that it has more than, say, 64KB of RAM. Still an enormous amount of work but not like trying to figure out how an iPhone works without any documentation.
Pushing software updates with an almost 24 hour latency, nice
I’m sure it wasn’t aliens :: x files music ::
That’s what I thought too, until I read
The announcement that Voyager 1’s instruments were returning data again came two days after JPL announced the passing of Ed Stone, who served as Voyager’s project scientist from the mission’s inception in 1972 until 2022.
And realized it was the ghost of Ed Stone.
I thought i thought this was solved weeks ago?
They figured out how to resolve it weeks ago.
It has taken this long to implement the results, and to get usable data flowing again
