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• NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is the most distant human-made object, more than 15 billion miles (24 billion km) from Earth in interstellar space.
• 14, 2023 it stopped sending readable science and engineering data, even though it was still receiving commands.
• Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory traced the problem to a single failed chip storing part of the memory of the flight data subsystem (FDS), the computer that…

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