NASA engineers have resolved a perplexing issue with the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which had been transmitting indecipherable signals to Earth for five months. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1, now over 15 billion miles away, began sending garbled data in November 2023, baffling scientists. A recent “poke” to its flight data subsystem (FDS) revealed that corrupted memory, possibly due to a damaged chip, was to blame. Despite the uncertainty surrounding the exact cause of the malfunction—whether from space particles or simple wear and tear after 46 years—the team is optimistic about devising a workaround to bypass the faulty chip. This fix will allow Voyager 1 to resume sending clear data from beyond our solar system, continuing its historic mission of exploring interstellar space since exiting the heliosphere in 2012.
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