The 47 year old Voyager 1 spacecraft lives to transmit science data for another day.
Despite being built in the 70s with what is now aging tech, Voyager 1 and 2 are the only spacecraft to have entered interstellar space.
That journey has not been without its problems though as late last year Voyager 1 began sending ground teams nonsense. Since then, NASA has been working to return Voyager 1 to fighting form and last week it finally managed to do that. Considering that not only did NASA have to conduct this repair remotely from 24 billion kilometres away, it had to do so on technology which is by all accounts, ancient.
Of course, a civilisation that finds this record will need to be able to understand concepts such as binary code, mathematics and science and as such, would need to be well advanced. NASA was kind enough to include the kit needed to play the record as a payload within Voyager.
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