Image of tweet by Richard Stevenson - "The FDS MEMUPD worked as planned. No attempts were made to change bit rate or return to the lower subcarrier frequency but now engineering data is being received. Baby steps, for the first time in a couple of months I'm feeling really optermistic."

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1. AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 21:20:12 UTC AkaSci 🛰️

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   Great news on Voyager 1.
   Richard Stephenson of DSN Canberra reports that engineering data was being received from Voyager 1 last night at 40 bps.

   No science data yet, perhaps because they did not switch to the higher 160 bps rate, but this is a major step towards recovery and validates the diagnosis (failed memory chip in the FDS computer) and fix (rearrange software to bypass the failed memory area).

   Now waiting for a status update from NASA.
   23/n