“Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally.”

    • Endorkend@kbin.social
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      7 months ago

      This is just a diagnosis of the problem.

      That thing is engineered so they can bypass or repurpose ever little bit.

      Which is probably what they’ll do now, do a software update that will make the system evade the bad memory segment.

      Voyager has 3 computers and only 1 is affected.

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Did they use 3 different types of memory? If one is failing after 45 years I’d think the odds of the other similar memory possibly failing as well is possible