Voyager Is 25 Billion Kilometers Away, and NASA Is Keeping It Alive One Watt at a Time
In November 2023, Voyager 1 started sending back gibberish. The cause: one dead memory chip, 25 billion kilometers away, where nothing can be swapped and commands take two days round trip. NASA's team rewrote the code around the damage and even woke a thruster that had been dormant for 21 years.
