Engineers have partially restored a 1970s-era computer on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-distance troubleshooting, building confidence that humanity's first interstellar probe can eventually resume normal operations. Several dozen scientists and engineers gathered Saturday in a conference room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or connected virtually, to wait for a new signal from Voyager 1.
Recoding Voyager 1—nasa’s Interstellar Explorer Is Finally Making Sense Again
Stephen Clark, Ars Technica
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 10:56am
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- Recoding Voyager 1—NASA’s interstellar explorer is finally making sense again
After a few weeks, NASA was ready to uplink a solution to get the FDS to resume packing engineering data. This data stream includes information on the status of the spacecraft—things like power levels ...
04/23/2024 - 6:56 am | View Link - After months of sending gibberish to NASA, Voyager 1 is finally making sense again
NASA's Voyager 1 probe has resumed sending usable data back to Earth after engineers fixed a computer error that caused the interstellar spacecraft to only transmit gibberish for five months.
04/23/2024 - 2:04 am | View Link - Recoding Voyager 1—NASA’s interstellar explorer is finally making sense again
I knew it before today, but the fact that any original scientists & engineers from the probe’s launch days are nearing retirement age makes me saddened at the potential loss of tribal knowledge ...
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