Last month, it was reported that the Voyager-1 spacecraft, now 15 billion miles from Earth, had stopped sending its normal stream of data due to some on-board computer glitch. Engineers at JPL kept attempting to recover from the glitch. Apparently, they were somewhat successful earlier this month, receiving a data stream once again, but just not what they were expecting. They have decoded this data stream and believe it to be a dump of the computer’s memory rather than the usual telemetry data. So at least it is still functioning on some level and they’ll continue to try and effect a full recovery.

Somewhat disturbingly, within the data they have received, they discovered a message whereby Voyager is insisting that it meet with “its Creator”. The meaning of this is unknown.