Sorry but I believe that almost all news about Outer Space is fake.
Voyager 1 supposedly launched on September 5, 1977 and is now supposedly outside the solar system and about 15 billion miles from the Sun. (By way of comparison, Jupiter is 465 million miles from the Sun). The news is that this 46 year old space probe had a hardware failure. NASA scientists were supposedly able to remotely diagnose the problem (a defective memory chip in the flight data system) and upload a firmware patch and correct the problem.
See https://hackaday.com/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/
The firmware patch that got sent over on April 18th contained an initial test to validate the theory, moving the code responsible for the engineering data packaging to a new spot in the FDS memory. If the theory was correct, this should mean that this time the correct data should be sent back from Voyager. Twice a 22.5 hour trip and change through Deep Space and back later on April 20th the team was ecstatic to see what they had hoped for. With this initial test successful, the team can now move on to moving the remaining code away from the faulty memory after which regular science operations should resume, and giving the plucky spacecraft a new lease on life at the still tender age of 46.
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