NASAs Voyager 1 has been glitching for months,sending nonsensical data to ground control.
Things are looking pretty bleak for the aging mission, which might be nearing the end.
Still, NASA isnt ready to let go of its most distant spacecraft just yet.
Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to travel outside the solar system.Illustration: Caltech/NASA-JPL
The anomaly may have something to do with the spacecrafts flight data system (FDS).
FDS and TMU, however, may be having trouble communicating with one another.
Engineers resolved the issue by sending the telemetry data through one of the spacecrafts other computers.
In December 2023, Voyager 1 started speaking gibberish again.
That takes about a week, which is why its been such a slow process.
As they travel farther away from home, each of the Voyager probes carries a message from Earth.
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