In 2024, engineers rescued Voyager 1 after it spent months transmitting gibberish, remotely rewriting and relocating pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip from more than 24 billion kilometres away. - Space Daily

In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Voyager 1, more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth, began sending back a meaningless, repeating pattern instead of data, and it kept doing so for about five mo…