The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which has reached the farthest point on Earth, is sending messages that are almost incomprehensible and confusing. Currently, engineers do not fully understand what happens to the space probe that has drifted 24 billion kilometers.
The probe can still receive commands from Earth, but messages sent to interstellar space take about 22.5 hours to receive. This means it will take days (or longer) before experts know whether their attempts to recover the nearly 50-year-old probe’s computer have succeeded.
This isn’t the first time Voyager-1 has returned messy data. The computer on board the probe had previously malfunctioned once in 2022, and due to the error, confusion was also transmitted to the control center. Then NASA engineers were able to find and fix the problem. However, this took several months.
It won’t be easy to fix
In this case It causes errorthat the space probe’s flight data system (FDS) is unable to properly collect and transmit data from other subsystems to Earth. For this reason, no scientific data is transmitted to Earth from interstellar space, but information describing the state of the probe is also displayed as a jumbled mess.
NASA engineers have little choice, forced to navigate nearly half a century of technical specifications detailing how the US space agency’s legendary probe will work. Since the technology used to build the spacecraft is now very outdated, they are not in an easy situation.
the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 The two probes were launched in 1977, and their mission was to study Jupiter and Saturn. Currently, both spacecraft are drifting away from us in interstellar space. If Voyager 1 can be repaired, the mission could continue until the probe’s 50th birthday.
