NASA most likely to end Voyager 1 mission:
From NASA / JPL website Operations Plan to the End Mission

From the New York Times:
Voyager 1, First Craft in Interstellar Space, May Have Gone Dark


From Jefferson Public Radio:
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried

There is hope yet!


Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble
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Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers...

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There is good hope yet:

Recoding Voyager 1—NASA’s interstellar explorer is finally making sense again
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Engineers have partially restored a 1970s-era computer on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-distance troubleshooting, building confidence that humanity's first interstellar probe can eventually resume normal operations.

Several dozen scientists and engineers gathered Saturday in a conference room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or connected virtually, to wait for a new signal from Voyager 1. The ground team sent a command up to Voyager 1 on Thursday to recode part of the memory of the spacecraft's Flight Data Subsystem (FDS), one of the probe's three computers.

“In the minutes leading up to when we were going to see a signal, you could have heard a pin drop..."

Yay! Way to go!!


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from the linked article:

Newer NASA missions have hardware and software simulators on the ground, where engineers can test new procedures to make sure they do no harm when they uplink commands to the real spacecraft. Due to its age, Voyager doesn't have any ground simulators, and much of the mission's original design documentation remains in paper form and hasn't been digitized.

Yes...

Truly flying by the seats of their pants through the reality of any misplaced poke meaning "Game Over".


Very good to have very good thorough patience!!

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Martin

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Way to go!


Voyager 1 makes stellar comeback to science operations
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Engineers coax veteran probe back to health

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is back in action and conducting normal science operations for the first time since the veteran probe began spouting gibberish at the end of 2023.

All four of the spacecraft's remaining operational instruments are now returning usable data to Earth...

... And 45 hours is a very long brewtime whilst waiting for a response...!


Fantastic stuff!!

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Martin

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... And for an encore:

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

Wow!

47 years for seals in harsh conditions to start to fail...


... And then we have the failed ptfe seals of the baby Boeing Starliner...


Spectacular!

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Martin

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Seems it's time to send up a Voyager servicing mission to replace some aged thrusters, heaters, rubber diaphragms; may add some plutonium for another 50 years.