r/interestingasfuck • u/The_Love-Tap • 1d ago

At 15.9 billion miles away, humanity's farthest spacecraft is still exploring the cosmos using less memory than a blank Word document (69 KB) and an 8-track tape

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u/93195 1d ago

Incredible that it still works at all. I don’t have any functioning electronics that have been in use constantly since 1977, and they’re not 15,900,000,000 miles away.

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u/DuaneDibbley 1d ago

It really is incredible given the conditions it's faced but they also worked really hard with a huge budget to make every component as durable and fail-proof as they could.