Mystery issue experienced on NASA's Voyager 1 probe from 1977
Source: CNN
The Voyager 1 probe is still exploring interstellar space 45 years after launching, but it has encountered an issue that mystifies the spacecraft's team on Earth.
Voyager 1 continues to operate well, despite its advanced age and 14.5 billion-mile distance (23.3 billion kilometers) from Earth. And it can receive and execute commands sent from NASA, as well as gather and send back science data.
But the readouts from the attitude articulation and control system, which control the spacecraft's orientation in space, don't match up with what Voyager is actually doing. The attitude articulation and control system, or AACS, ensures that the probe's high-gain antenna remains pointed at Earth so Voyager can send data back to NASA.
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So far, the Voyager team believes the AACS is still working, but the instrument's data readouts seem random or impossible. The system issue hasn't triggered anything to put the spacecraft into "safe mode" so far. That's when only essential operations occur so engineers can diagnose an issue that would put the spacecraft at risk.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/18/world/nasa-voyager-1-issue-scn/index.html
Archae
(46,327 posts)Sancho
(9,070 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)Earth-shine
(4,012 posts)Sorry.
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)electric_blue68
(14,896 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)Or a discounted trip through the Guardian of Forever!
electric_blue68
(14,896 posts)electric_blue68
(14,896 posts)sdfernando
(4,935 posts)they are trying to contact us. Need to look at the data and decode it.
electric_blue68
(14,896 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,145 posts)electric_blue68
(14,896 posts)ColinC
(8,294 posts)But very, very far away
BootinUp
(47,147 posts)It is .0025 light years away.
ColinC
(8,294 posts)Places several light-years, hundreds, thousand or millions, truly are.
TexasTowelie
(112,189 posts)how many times will the kids ask, "Are we there yet?"
Igel
(35,309 posts)"How many generations of kids will ask, 'Are we there yet?' "
Trueblue1968
(17,218 posts)er
electric_blue68
(14,896 posts)plimsoll
(1,669 posts)We get there when we get there.
LudwigPastorius
(9,145 posts)electric_blue68
(14,896 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,145 posts)I just googled asteroid ship.
It does have a certain late 60s/early70s look to it.
electric_blue68
(14,896 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)for potty breaks for the ladies........
Jimbo S
(2,958 posts)electric_blue68
(14,896 posts)paleotn
(17,913 posts)Just like the rest of us, age eventually takes its toll. I was a teenager when NASA launched the Voyagers, so I can relate. 14.5 billion miles. Roll that around in your head a few times. Wow.
Akoto
(4,266 posts)Aussie105
(5,397 posts)Go little Voy_1, go!
3Hotdogs
(12,378 posts)when they took over ZirTin. They used the excuse that most of the citizens of ZirTin were Romulans, spoke Romulan and want to be governed by Romulan.
twodogsbarking
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