Posted on Apr 25, 2024
NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet
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NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense.
The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California declared success after receiving good engineering updates late last week. The team is still working to restore transmission of the science data.
The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California declared success after receiving good engineering updates late last week. The team is still working to restore transmission of the science data.
NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet
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I continue to remember Star Trek's episode about VGYR amassing whole universes and deemed initially to be a grave threat!
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That thing is actually out in interstellar space. It boggles my mind that some wizards figured out a way to chat with something that far away.
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