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  • Voyager 1’s Archaic Onboard Computers Are Stuttering

    Voyager 1’s Archaic Onboard Computers Are Stuttering

    Humanity’s most distant spacecraft is glitching out—again—and engineers are having quite a diffitcult time solving the problem. Voyager 1, what are we going to do with you? The issue is with the 46-year-old Voyager 1’s flight data system (FDS), one of its three onboard computers. The FDS collects data from Voyager’s science instruments and takes…