Voyager 1 Starts Sending NASA Random Data, Nobody Knows Why Yet

"A mystery like this is sort of par for the course at this stage of the Voyager mission," according to Suzanne Dodd, JPL project manager for Voyager 1 and 2. "The spacecraft are both almost 45 years old, which is far beyond what the mission planners anticipated." Dodd also points out that interstellar space is a "high-radiation environment that no spacecraft have flown in before," so a few strange events that take some time to explain should come as no surprise.

Voyager 1 Starts Sending NASA Random Data, Nobody Knows Why Yet
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