• FreeFacts@sopuli.xyz
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    10 months ago

    I wonder how it is secured, or could anyone with a big enough transmitter reprogram it at will…

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      Its partially because there is only one set of antennas large enough to communicate with it, and that’s only sometimes. Its called the Deep space network and it is very secure because it’s used for many things, not just communicating with the Voyager probes.

      Second, you’d have to have very very intimate knowledge of the hardware, and programming language to even begin to hack it. And the people who do have that knowledge are very very passionate about their probes.

      So I guess technically the answer is yes. But practically, no.

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    10 months ago

    Let’s hope the over-the-air update didn’t get Man-In-The-Middled…

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    10 months ago

    My understanding is that they sent V’Ger a command to do “something,” and then the gibberish it was sending changed, and that was the “here’s everything” signal.

    And yeah, I’m calling it V’Ger from now on.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      And yeah, I’m calling it V’Ger from now on

      Have my upvote.

      Why haven’t we been doing this already? I’m with you, let’s make this happen!

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    10 months ago

    I still cannot believe NASA managed to re-establish a connection with Voyager 1.

    That scene from The Martian where JPL had a hardware copy of Pathfinder on Earth? That’s not apocryphal. NASA keeps a lot of engineering models around for a variety of purposes including this sort of hardware troubleshooting.

    It’s a practice they started after Voyager. They shot that patch off into space based off of old documentation, blueprints, and internal memos.

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      10 months ago

      Imagine scrolling back in the Slack chat 50 years to find that one thing someone said about how the chip bypass worked.

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          10 months ago

          This is why slack is bullshit. And discord. We should all go back to email. It can be stored and archived and organized and get off my lawn.