The failure occurred at the end of 2023
The Voyager 1 spacecraft may have already been completely lost to NASA.
At the end of last year, the device experienced a malfunction, due to which the probe began sending only “binary gibberish” to Earth. The problem was that the device did not return telemetry. Now scientists do not know anything about the state of the device.
Apparently, the problem is indeed very serious, since Suzanne Dodd, who is the manager of the entire Voyager project, stated that this is the most serious thing that has happened to the probe during her leadership.
If we get him back, it will be the greatest miracle. Of course, we didn’t give up
Of course, Voyager 1 in the foreseeable future would, in any case, completely lose contact with Earth simply because of age, because the ship’s resources are not infinite. But now it is very likely that this error put an end to the history of this legendary probe, which is now located at a distance of approximately 24 billion km from Earth.