This chapter narrates the challenges faced by NASA engineers in troubleshooting a malfunction in the Voyager 1 spacecraft, located 15 billion miles away. Despite initial setbacks and garbled data, the team displayed remarkable resilience and persistence to locate and fix the issue through remote commands. The story highlights the remarkable durability of aging technology in space and the intricate process of communicating with a spacecraft in the depths of interstellar space.
On Wednesday, President Biden signed a bill into law that would force the sale of TikTok or ban the app outright. We explain how this came together, when just a few weeks ago it seemed unlikely to happen, and what legal challenges the law will face next. Then we check on Tesla’s very bad year and what’s next for the company after this week’s awful quarterly earnings report. Finally, to boldly support tech where tech has never been supported before: Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab try to fix a chip malfunction from 15 billion miles away.
Guests:
- Andrew Hawkins, Transportation Editor at The Verge
- Todd Barber, Propulsion Engineer at Jet Propulsion Lab
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