Voyager 1 Sends Back Gibberish; Engineers Race to Diagnose and Fix Possible Memory Corruption on Pioneering Interstellar Spacecraft
• Voyager 1 is sending back gibberish data instead of scientific info; the cause is likely a single corrupted memory bit in its flight data system
• Engineers have tried rebooting the system to fix it, but that hasn't worked
• The team is evaluating a plan to put Voyager 1 into an old flyby mode to get more clues about the memory corruption
• Fixing the 46-year-old spacecraft is challenging without simulators or many original engineers left
• If the issue can't be fixed, Voyager 1 may go into a long sleep, ending its interstellar mission