Everyone’s favorite space probes, the Voyagers, are back in the headlines again, and recently it looked like we almost lost communication with Voyager 1 for good. Back on December 12, 2023, NASA reported that Voyager 1’s flight data system, which consists of three onboard computers, started sending binary gibberish data back to Earth; a repeating pattern of ones and zeros that made no sense to the engineers. When the glitch first occurred, engineers could still send signals to the distant probe

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