NASA has been racing non-stop through outer space for 47 years Investigate historical significance, Voyager-1, which, however, has encountered an unexpected error in recent months. Space agency researchers have finally figured out what's behind the problem, and they're finally receiving interpretable radio signals from the device.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that for the first time in five months, Voyager-1 has sent usable data to our planet about the state of the technical systems on board. But engineers still need to patch the software that will allow the probe to provide reusable scientific data.
Something happened 24 billion kilometers from Earth, the furthest spacecraft sending strange signals in months
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Voyager 1 is currently about 24 billion kilometers from Earth, and signals from interstellar space take at least 22.5 hours to reach Earth, and the probe takes the same amount of time to detect a response from mission controllers.
Engineers first noticed something was wrong with Voyager 1 on November 14, 2023, when the spacecraft suddenly began broadcasting an inconsequential stream of data instead of the usual scientific and engineering data streams.
Voyager's probes have found something crazy in space outside the solar system, and NASA scientists still don't understand everything
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In early March, after three months of work, NASA engineering teams determined that the problem was related to one of the computer systems on board Voyager-1, the so-called “flight data subsystem,” which is necessary for clear transmission of signals. .
It turned out that the chip had malfunctioned, but by bypassing it, the error was eventually eliminated, and the human spacecraft farthest from Earth finally sent out interpretable data packets again five months later. the NASA fun It's completely understandable, but scientists still have a lot of work to do to overcome the additional problems that still exist.
Just to be clear, the probe launched in 1977 got this far:
