NASA engineers fixed some thrusters on Voyager 1 from 15 billion miles (almost 1 light-day) away. They’d been broken for 20+ years and the fix was tricky. “If the heaters were still off when they fired, it could trigger a small explosion…” Amazing.
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And if you want to dig in super deep on the drama around Voyager 1 in recent years, Scott Manley gets real in the weeds for over half our in this new video.
I love the YT comments in it, from people that worked in Assembler, or similar hardware/software as Voyager.
https://youtu.be/p0K7u3B_8rY
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