NASA re-establishes communication with Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft that went silent for months

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NASA re-established communication with Voyager 1, an interstellar spacecraft that nearly five months ago began sending unreadable data back to the space agency.

and Voyager 1 are communicating back and forth again, after the most distant human-made object in space stopped sending usable data back to the space agency nearly five months ago.

OFFICIALS SAY Engineers discovered the chip responsible for storing a portion of the FDS memory was faulty, making the code unusable. Had the spacecraft been located on Earth, engineers would be able to go in and replace a chip, but because it is in interstellar space, engineers needed to figure out a way to move the affected code somewhere else in the FDS memory. The code is so large that there is not a single location to store the entire section of the code.

 

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