Next hardware reset and automatic reorientation for Voyager 2 is October 15th. Yes the device automatically resets itself about four to five times a year. Communications are expected to be reestablished then.
That's great to know. This post made me weirdly depressed and was a bad way to start the morning lol.
That's good news! I was about to ask whether they have some absolute software recovery procedure and glad they do!
Unrelated but I've been wondering this for years: What's your avatar from and why do so many people across the web have that exact same one?
No idea, I found it somewhere a decade ago and have been using it. I think I’ve only seen someone with it like one other time. 🤷🏻♂️
I remember it used to be popular in gaming groups and some music around 2008-2012 and a lot of variations of the same gas mask character were made
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/02/1191341035/nasa-voyager-2-spacecraft-contact
Sounds like it's a recoverable error (if the scientists can't do it the spacecraft has an automated process that'll kick in in October.) Still, I can't imagine what that must feel like.
https://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/04noaanreport/
Probably a lot like the person responsible for dropping the NOAA-19 satellite.
I imagine they feel bad. Not really bad, like a loved one died, but pretty bad, like a passion they worked really hard for just fizzled out.
V2 be like: "WHAT did you say about my mother? F... you, Earth man."
Mission control: "Dude you don't have a mother it was a typo. Dude. Talk to me."
seen
Mission control: "Dude."
seen
Mission control: "C'mon man."
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Probably played with the firewall settings and accidentally disabled port 22... It sucked when I did that
Tfw you conf t and shut a management port down on accident and don't have a backup console connection
Wow, I just read the wiki. It has a 64 Megabyte tape storage, so after it realigns the antenna they can receive the data they've missed. Pretty state of the art for 1977. I wonder how they shielded it from radiation. The fuel source of the reactor lasts probably until 2026. After that, it'll travel as a brick, most likely long after humans rm -rf'd