for the cost of doing that, it’d probably be better to invest the time and resources in a new satellite all together.
it’s kinda the same dilemma as the Wait Calculation
“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.
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 could be the 2050 X Prize.
This is a slightly different question (retrieving Voyager I) but an interesting read nonetheless.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/38/
for the cost of doing that, it’d probably be better to invest the time and resources in a new satellite all together. it’s kinda the same dilemma as the Wait Calculation
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The First Artifact. I like it.
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.”
Nah they’re gonna have to send somebody out there
Maybe there is already somebody out there, who is manipulating the signal. 👽