The First Interstellar Software Update - The Insane Hack That Saved Voyager 1

In November 2023 Voyager 1 stopped communicating with Earth, the telemetry it was sending contained no information, but engineers working on the spacecraft could tell it was still listening. It would take months of experimenting to understand the problem and develop a fix using techniques that had never been employed before and designing software for a 50 year old computer using pen and paper.

Based on presentations by Bruce Waggoner and David Cummings - check out the originals:
   • Bruce Waggoner   Saving Voyager 1  
   • How We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyage...  


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