engineers from NASA are closer to solving the probe’s communication problem Voyager 1. This is because, currently located outside the solar system, it is unable to send usable data back to Earth. In November 2023, communications from Voyager 1 with operators on the ground stopped making sense. The source of the problem appears to be one of the three computers on board Voyager 1: the flight data subsystem (FDS).
In 2012, Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to leave the solar system and enter interstellar space. For 11 years after this feat, the probe sent back data detailing how space works beyond the influence of the sun. However, the Voyager 2which followed its space “sister” out of the solar system in 2018, is still operational and communicating with Earth.
The engineering team at Voyager 1 detected activity from a section of the FDS that was different from the rest of the computer’s jumbled data stream on March 3. They will now compare this new signal with data sent to Earth shortly before Earth. Voyager 1 start emitting binary nonsense. Thus, they hope to find the source of the problem. As a result, they could restore communication with the pioneering space mission that extended humanity’s reach beyond the solar system.
Voyager case: NASA continues investigation
The discovery of a signal containing a readout of the FDS memory is a promising advance, but resolving the problems of communicating with such a distant probe remains a painstaking and time-consuming process.
Source: Atrevida
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