46 years is a good run for a memory module.
What’s wild to me is
Although it may take several months, the engineers say they can find a workaround to run the FDS without the fried chip — restoring the spacecraft’s messaging output and enabling it to continue to send readable information from outside our solar system.
Like there is such limited hardware on that thing, and we communicate with it in such low bandwidth signals, it’s such a testament to the engineers behind the project that it can still be customized 46 years later, being outside the solar system, to overcome failing hardware
Fantastic documentary on the engineers for Voyager:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt17658964/
The article took me right to the point, love to see it nowadays.
After decoding the spacecraft’s response, the engineers have found the source of the problem: The FDS’s memory has been corrupted.
Pretty much what was speculated.
It’s gone past the simulation parameters?
spoiler: it’s because the spacecraft has a radio with a big honkin antenna on it
