TheSkySearchers

NASA's interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft stops communicating:

https://www.space.com/nasa-voyager-spac ... ign=MANUAL

Graeme

It’s amazing that it’s been working for this long !

I was in high school when it was launched.

Time for another reboot!
It's outlasted every computer I have ever owned.

Yep. Been having problems for a while.
See here: https://theskysearchers.com/viewtopic.php?t=33412

smp

Hopefully it can be fixed but... for a mission that was originally hoped to last five years, both of the Voyagers have way outlived their warranties.

Reading about the robustness of this spacecraft, a man-made object, makes me wistful, and slightly miffed that my refrigerator, and furnace , and car don't work nearly as well or last as long.

They were predicting end-of-life for the RTG in 2025, so the spacecraft was near the end of its life anyway. I don't think it needs to apologize to anyone. It has lasted ten times longer than its original mission plan, providing new science every step of the way.

Journey well into the abyss, V'ger!

In 2014 they anticipated battery by 2020, seems 1970's technology has excelled here.

It’s really a shame that this journey ends like this, all good things come to an end.

It's amazing that it worked as long as it did!