Voyager 1 began transmitting unreadable data on 14 November 2023. The flight data subsystem, one of three onboard computers built in the 1970s, had stopped packaging the spacecraft's science and engineering telemetry into anything the Deep Space Network could decode.
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Sergei Krikalev launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in May 1991 as a Soviet citizen.
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