Category: Voyager 1

The spaceship Voyager 1 stopped sending readable data back to Earth on November 14, 2023. Although controllers could tell it was still receiving their commands, the data was not accessible. In March, teams at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory discovered that a single malfunctioning chip was the cause, and devised a…

The spaceship Voyager 1 stopped sending readable data back to Earth on November 14, 2023. However, it was still receiving commands from controllers. In March, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory found that a malfunctioning chip was the issue and developed a clever coding fix, enabling the spacecraft to return usable data…

The Voyager 1 spacecraft stopped sending readable data back to Earth on November 14, 2023, even though controllers could still see that it was receiving their commands. In March, teams at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory found a single malfunctioning chip to be the cause and created a clever coding fix…