NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact

• While the Voyager 1 spacecraft still isn't sending valid science data back to Earth, it is now returning usable information about the health and operating status of its onboard engineering systems. 

Optimism:

https://spacenews.com/nasa-optimistic-about-resolving-voyager-1-computer-problem/

A NASA official says he is optimistic that a problem with the Voyager 1 spacecraft that has kept it from transmitting intelligible data for months can be resolved.

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the problem appears to be a corrupted memory unit on the spacecraft. “It’s a part failure on one of the memories and they’re looking for a way to move a couple hundred words of software from one region to another in the flight computer,” he said.

@chrisjbillington thanks

NASA Engineers Make Progress Toward Understanding Voyager 1 Issue (2024-03-13).

@SanghyeonSeo thanks

How's it going?

If they can't get it working after all this time, why would it suddenly start working later?

@benjaminIkuta Dumb luck plus sheer determination. It's one of humanity's greatest achievements, I'm sure they'll keep trying until they're certain it'll never come back.

I think it's very, very unlikely. But that won't stop them from trying.

@Pykess "very, very unlikely" 25%?