How Engineers Restored Voyager 1 Telemetry Remotely
!!Con · Talk · YouTube title: Saving Voyager 1! - Bruce Waggoner at !!Con 2024
Why it's here
Recommended as an amazing blind-debugging story with deep detail on 1970s spacecraft computing.
What it covers
Bruce Waggoner of the Voyager team describes how engineers diagnosed Voyager 1's 2023 loss of telemetry and patched its flight software from 15 billion miles away. The talk covers the spacecraft's architecture and the scarcity of old documentation.