“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.”
I wonder if they can remote fix it, like block of the damaged ram, via code injection.
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The First Artifact. I like it.
FWIW, the voyager probes have 69.63 kB of ram to work with.
64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
Or just send a ship out to retrieve, repair, and release it.
I’d like to see some math on how long it would take a fully orbit refilled Starship to reach it and return.
Someone send Elon… I’m sure it will be a quick trip so no need for extensive rations😉
This is a slightly different question (retrieving Voyager I) but an interesting read nonetheless.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/38/
This could be the 2050 X Prize.
Nah they’re gonna have to send somebody out there
Answered in the article.
“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.”