1. Graphic of the Voyager 1 spacecraft with a starry background 2. High level schematic of Voyager computers and telecom systems

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1. AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 21:20:15 UTC AkaSci 🛰️

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   Good news from the Voyager 1 spacecraft that has been stuck sending a 0101 pattern since Nov 2023.

   The team has long suspected the root cause to be a corrupted area of memory in the FDS computer. On Mar 1, they sent some commands to make the FDS skip around sections of memory. The data stream rcvd 45 hours later looked different and was decoded to contain a read-out of the entire FDS memory!

   Hopefully, they can now identify and fix the offending memory words.
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   https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/
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