"NASA Engineers Resolve Voyager 1's Data Transmission Issue from Outside Solar System"

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NASA engineers have discovered that the Voyager 1 spacecraft's recent stream of gibberish is due to a corrupted memory in its flight data subsystem (FDS). The issue may be caused by a malfunctioning chip, possibly due to exposure to energetic particles or simply wear and tear after 46 years. Engineers are working on a workaround to run the FDS without the faulty chip, aiming to restore the spacecraft's messaging output and enable it to continue sending readable information from outside our solar system, where it currently resides more than 15 billion miles away.
Topics:science#interstellar-communication#nasa#space-exploration#spacecraft#spacetechnology#voyager-1
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