In 2024, engineers rescued Voyager 1 after it spent months transmitting gibberish, remotely rewriting and relocating pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip from more than 24 billion kilometres away.

In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Voyager 1, more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth, began sending back a meaningless, repeating pattern instead of data, and it kept doing so for about five months. In 2024, engineers brought it back, not by sending anyone to [...] The post In 2024, engineers rescued Voyager 1 after it spent months transmitting gibberish, remotely rewriting and relocating pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed