"NASA Solves Voyager 1 Glitch After Months of Debugging"
TL;DR
NASA engineers have identified a small portion of corrupted memory in the flight data subsystem (FDS) as the cause of Voyager 1's unreadable data transmission, likely due to a malfunctioning chip. The issue, possibly caused by an energetic particle or the age of the silicon, has hindered the spacecraft's normal operations. It may take weeks or months to find a solution, but NASA remains optimistic about restoring Voyager 1's ability to send usable science and engineering data.
Topics:sciencespacetechnology#data-transmission#nasa#space-exploration#spacecraft#spacetechnology#voyager-1
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