This week, the NASA began to worry about the spacecraft Voyager 1. The probe has been in space for almost half a century. However, scientists became very scared soon after the lone probe began sending messages that were different from usual. “She basically stopped talking to us coherently”, said the project manager at Voyager, Suzanne Dodd, to NPR. “It’s a serious problem“.
A Voyager 1, in particular, which is currently floating beyond the defined edge of the solar system, some 15 billion miles away, appears to be in a worse state of wear. This is because it started to no longer send binary code over billions of kilometers. Faced with the problem, the NASA is trying to restart the old probe, but has not been successful yet.
Space is hard. Interstellar space is harder. Solving issues like this takes time – because it takes more than 22 hours for a message to travel from Earth to my twin Voyager 1 and another 22 hours for a response to make it back. -V2 https://t.co/aAOqgQEyXm
— NASA Voyager (@NASAVoyager) February 6, 2024
“The button you press to open your car door has more computing power. This in relation to the Voyager spacecraft“, he said Dodd to NPR. “It is remarkable that they continue to fly and have been flying for over 46 years. [Estamos tentando] get inside the heads of the original developers and find out why they designed something the way they did”, stated the project manager.
“The science data that the Voyagers are returning becomes more valuable as they move away from the Sun, so we’re definitely interested in keeping as many science instruments running for as long as possible.“, he said Linda Spilkerproject scientist at Voyagerin 2023.
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