Voyager 1 Might Be Dying! 🥺

The NASA Voyager 1 might be in trouble! It's the furthest space probe humanity has sent but is it finally time to say goodbye?

[Ganondorf]

For a spacecraft that was originally designed to last 5 years and made it to 50, it's hard to say goodbye, but at the same time, we have all been privileged to see it make it this far.
🫡 I salute you, Voyager I. May you be discovered by life in the depths of space ✨️

[sfneurosurgeon]

The technology when they sent it out was from the 1970s. How impressive for it to operate for this long.

[GhostOfAces]

The Voyager 1 will never be lost. Just missing in action.

[xxsmokerxx]

"Its Getting dark, and my battery is low"

[johnsandoval]

V-ger : " runrunrunrunrunrunrunrun...."
NASA: " damn. Must be broken. "

[Vortex]

The fact that we're still receiving any signal from it is absolutely insane. It crossed over into interstellar space which has way higher radiation levels. It was never meant to communicate over that distance in the first place.

[YS-mscw]

I am a software engineer and debugging a code when there are glitches is one of the most frustrating things we do. I can only imagine how frustrating it would get for the engineers at NASA when there is a Latency of 1 day.

[imoldgregg]

The fact that we can send information to a spacecraft 15 billion miles away in 1 day that was sent 50 years ago is mind-blowing and beautiful.

[TheAcadianGuy]

40+ years of service is quite an achievement by itself

[kenshinbattousai]

We saw it leave the heliosphere. That's already an absolutely insane achievement for a spacecraft that was designed to a 5 year spec.

[joggingscissors]

15 billion miles?

And my new phone STILLdrops calls in the elevator.

[WAVEZ]

I’m here 4 months later to tell all of you that nasa recently fixed the problem. Voyager 1 is back and I get to see my favorite spacecraft live another day. ❤

[larryhobgood]

"Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again?"
-All IT guys

[plxton]

No matter what happens, Voyager 1 will always be doing its sole purpose

[undesconocido]

Bro is carrying the entire human spirit on it.

[Bugelaa]

Technology then: I am durable af

Technology now: won't work for no reason

[darthflipyap]

Thank you for your service, Voyager 1. You boldly went where none have gone before. Rest in Peace.

[frankkennedy]

"Repeating the same series of 1s and 0s over and over again"

The Aliens: "Do you think they're getting the message?"

[beaksters]

The Voyager one is probably one of the most deserving items to be in a museum, that just never will.

[savagegecko]

If Voyager 1 was to be sent out of earth today. Every time NASA was to communicate with Voyager, they would have to watch an unskipable ad on youtube, and it would start glitching around moon distance.