After painstaking analysis, the culprit was found: a malfunctioning chip had corrupted a critical 3% of the flight system’s memory. That small failure meant that essential code controlling the spacecraft’s operations was essentially lost, making scientific and engineering data inaccessible.

rerouted the corrupted code, slicing it into parts and relocating each section to a different area of the spacecraft’s memory. It was like performing brain surgery on a machine that’s older than most of the people trying to fix it—and doing it from over 24 billion kilometers away.