NASA fixed a remote link to the 46-year-old Voyager 1 space probe on Monday, according to an update from the agency.
The probe had been sending “gibberish” code back to NASA because of a broken chip, according to a report by the Guardian. Given the distance, NASA was not able to repair the chip but rearranged the probe’s code so that it could send usable data, a challenge given the spacecraft’s limited 70-kilobyte memory.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrated the news on X, posting, “For the first time since November, Voyager 1 is returning useable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. Next step: Enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again.”
Sounding a little more like yourself, #Voyager1.
For the first time since November, Voyager 1 is returning useable data about
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