THE VIDEO SHELF · spacecraft flight software
How We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15 Billion Miles Away
JPL's David Cummings presents at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop how the team diagnosed and fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 anomaly from billions of miles away. It walks through the flight computer and the memory fix.
Why HN readers recommended it
Commenters recommend it for the remarkable remote reverse engineering done on decades-old hardware with no simulator.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Flight Software Workshop
- Topic
- spacecraft flight software
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2026–2026
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From the original HN conversations
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A slight tangent here is a technical deep dive on Voyager 1 fixing a memory corruption error in 2023 by hand 15 billion miles away. Blows my mind of the reverse engineering done to achieve this [VIDEO]
wanderingmind on Hacker News · 2026-08
In NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another yearHere's a talk about how the Voyager team fixed the flight data computer on Voyager 1 when a memory chip went bad on it a few years ago. It goes over how the flight computer works and he walks through a few assembly routines. [VIDEO] …
ndiddy on Hacker News · 2026-04
In NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
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