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Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Updates To Earth


quonset writes: Just over two weeks ago, NASA figured out why its Voyager 1 spacecraft stopped sending useful data. They suspected corrupted memory in its flight data system (FDS) was the culprit. Today, for the first time since November, Voyager 1 is sending useful data about its health and the sta...

quonset writes: Just over two weeks ago, NASA figured out why its Voyager 1 spacecraft stopped sending useful data. Today, for the first time since November, Voyager 1 is sending useful data about its health and the status of its onboard systems back to NASA. The team started by singling out the code responsible for packaging the spacecraft's engineering data.

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