Space Daily July 23, 2026 • 16:30

The computers guiding Voyager 1 through interstellar space process roughly 8,000 instructions per second; a modern smartphone processes more than 14 billion — yet that 1970s machine has operated for nearly half a century, farther from Earth than any spa - Space Daily

A machine built when the Beatles had just broken up still explores the cosmos—and NASA engineers still debug it the old-fashioned way.

Voyager 1 is controlled by computers whose performance belongs to another technological era. A frequently repeated comparison puts their speed at about 8,000 instructions per second, against more tha… [+5530 chars]

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The computers guiding Voyager 1 through interstellar space process roughly 8,000 instructions per second; a modern smartphone processes more than 14 billion — yet that 1970s machine has operated for nearly half a century, farther from Earth than any spa - Space Daily

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