NASA’s iconic space probe is having trouble communicating with its home planet due to a computer glitch, forcing engineers to resort to decades-old manuals to come up with a way to fix the 46-year-old mission. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is now more than 24 billion kilometres away from Earth. The spacecraft has been exploring the […]
  • n3m37h@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Can NASA start making motherboards for PCs? Average lifetime for one now is under 10 years

    • lurch (he/him)English
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      10 months ago

      They usually become outdated before they break, ie. an important component like the CPU can’t be upgraded any more, because it won’t fit, so you need to upgrade the whole thing.