Upcoming Hack to Keep NASA’s Voyager 1 Alive Exploits a Quirk in Its 1970s Hardware

NASA is preparing to execute a power-diversion maneuver on Voyager 1 following successful testing on its sister probe Voyager 2. io9 reports that the operation exploits a quirk in the spacecraft's nineteen-seventies hardware architecture. The technique, dubbed the 'big bang' power diversion, aims to keep humanity's most distant spacecraft operational.

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