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How NASA found an ingenious way to bring Voyager 1 back to life
Currently, the space probe is swifly gliding billions of miles away from Earth, regularly sending readable data about space.
And we look forward to getting science data back.” Call it a stroke of serendipity or the labor of engineers, that Voyager is now racing into interstellar space, far beyond the orbit of Pluto. The issue in question was fixed after a series of trials and errors that engineers did, after finding out that the mystery of the glitch lay in a single chip embedded in the spacecraft’s memory. Image Source: NASA When the glitch was discovered for the first time, the engineers could tell from the mission controllers that Voyager was still receiving their commands and operating normally, but the gibberish data kept coming.
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