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Voyager 1 just refuses to die.For the first time in five months, NASA's 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back usable data — all thanks to some "The probe, which along with its twin Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to reach interstellar space, startedto the spacecraft's flight data subsystem , which packages scientific and engineering data before being sent back to Earth.
Fortunately, the team has come up with a clever hack to bring the longest-running spacecraft back to life — a minor miracle, given its age andNASA staff discovered that a portion of the subsystem's memory wasn't working, rendering the data useless. Unfortunately, the team couldn't simply store the affected code in other parts of the memory, since the code was too large to be stored in its entirety elsewhere — after all, these systems date back to the early 1970s.
So the team came up with a clever solution: they started slicing up the affected code into sections and stored them in various places across the FDS. However, a first attempt to divvy up the affected code has already proved successful, allowing scientists to check the spacecraft's health and status for the first time in five months — yet another win that could prolong the decades-old spacecraft's life"During the coming weeks, the team will relocate and adjust the other affected portions of the FDS software," JPL noted in its update. "These include the portions that will start returning science data.
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