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Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth for the first time in 5 months - Slashdo...

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Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth for the first time in 5 months

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Tony Isaac writes: Voyager 1 is once again communicating back to Earth and appears to be functioning normally. Kudos to those NASA engineers who figured out how to diagnose that a chip was defective, and rewrite its code to avoid using that chip entirely! I can just imagine what kind of spaghetti code that is by now, but they figured out how to get it to work. I guess V'ger isn't quite here yet!

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