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Roger Moore

@gwynnion @Kalshann
That's also why they built a spare and kept it on the ground. That way they can test everything in an environment where they get a second chance if the fix doesn't work.

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Axel Gutmann

@VATVSLPR @gwynnion @Kalshann Last I read they didn't have that for Voyager.

Habrok

@VATVSLPR @gwynnion @Kalshann Keeping an engineering model on the ground is done for newer missions, but for Voyager and older probes, there are no engineering models left on earth. In this case, they only have the documentation on paper and whatever people remember from previous work on the Voyager probes.

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