Engineers found space in the geriatric spacecraft’s memory to deal with a stuck bit

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NASA engineers successfully diagnose and repair Voyager 1, which had been sending unusable data due to a stuck bit in its memory. The vintage technology and limited memory of Voyager posed challenges for the repair process. The spacecraft is expected to encounter more problems in the future.

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