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The drama of the 2023 Voyager 1 anomaly may not quite fit the theme, but this is a fantastic talk about how it was resolved: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcUy...

Not quite the same, but it was funny to come upon this right after reading your comment podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

I really liked this one - appreciate they didn’t go too heavy-handed with the analogy, because they didn’t need to

Hard to believe both of them are still kicking - less capable, sure, but still operational - after nearly half a century. Sagan would be proud.

The Last Watch by Stan Rogers, but for space

This sounds incredibly interesting. Thanks for the heads up. I'll repost to signal boost, which also sounds like something Voyager has needed a few of.

I had no idea about this. I friggin love The Voyagers. Thank you.

Also currently available for free on Plex and if you have Amazon Prime for presumably other reasons, included there as well.

That's so true. It's just like in that documentary. Some people are destined to stay on the lower decks because without them, the whole mission would completely fall apart.

"My battery is low, and it's getting dark..." Me at the end of that documentary on Opportunity Rover:

For what it’s worth, I didn’t, to my surprise. Dad designed ranging systems for JPL, and I met some of these folks driving for carpools and the like. I felt renewed admiration and appreciation for their work. The show stays strongly focused on “look at this nest, amazing they’re doing”.

It got them in fate grand order so

link please!

I work with people like that. We joke how no one ever really retires, they only transition to part time flex. it’s fun working with the people who literally invented space communication

Might give it a watch, then.

Great to hear, a follow followed :)

Are they Team Edward or Team Jacob?

Watched it on my breaks at work today and thanks that was an amazing story, thank you for sharing…put a reminder in my phone for August 20th 2027, hopefully they can both hang on till then

Several of them also worked on the Gravity Probe-B project - a test of Einstein's prediction of frame dragging that suffered without enough money to launch the orbital probe for twenty years. It finally got into space in 2004 and proved frame dragging many orders of magnitude better than predicted.

Free to watch w a library card on Hoopla!

Thank you for this great recommendation!

So unrealistic. Trump always puts his name in gold. 😉

www.nasa.gov/directorates...

We’re such a cute species when we let ourselves be.

Not in UK either :-(

Or Australia.

You're welcome to crash at my place.

You can try www4.fusionmovies.to/film/itaposs...

Oh, thank you! You just made recall that I have an open tab explaining how to use it :D

They know that the spacecraft contain the ghost of Carl Sagan, a d if they ever stop operating he will be free to return and wreak his terrible vengeance upon us.

This reminds me of one of my favorite bits in Robin Sloan's 'Moonbound', where a creature's lifespan correlates to the duration of their interest.

I asked ChatGPT what a photograph toward the inner solar system from the Voyagers would look like if (giant if) they could get the camera's operating again at the end of the mission.

have heard bits of their story. truly impressive

How about a Nobel Prize for all the Voyager Team members?

They are indeed truly admirable carbon units.