NASA spacecraft Voyager They have been in space for almost 45 years, religiously sending information to Earth. Their useful life is much longer than anticipated at the time, but it is more than expected that at some point they will experience some mistake. This is what seems to be happening now with the first of these ships. Voyager 1 just started filming telemetry data by chance. They don’t make any sense given your current location, so there must be some intervention or error what generates them.
The rest of the parameters are normal and the second ship “Voyager” works fine. So the NASA engineers aren’t too worried. They even believe that they could adapt to work given this setback.
However, as is logical, they will first try to discover its origin and unravel it. But that would be a pretty decent plan B, given how long the two Voyagers live. Hope they keep working until at least 2025, so they will stay close to 50 years of age. How to prevent their small mistake before a well-deserved retirement.
The long career of the Voyager probes
Two Voyager probes launched into space August and September 1977. Its purpose was to study Jupiter, Saturn and other planets outside the solar system. Voyager 2 is also the only spacecraft to explore Uranus and Neptune.
Its mission was originally to only five years. However, his answer was so good that NASA decided to lengthen it further and further. Thus, in 2013, Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to reach interstellar space.
The original mission of the Voyager probes was supposed to last only 5 years.
Currently at a distance 23.3 billion km from Earth. From there, he continues to send very useful information to countless space explorations. For example, it recently helped detect fluctuations in deep space plasma. All this can go on, no problem, but it would be optimal to solve this error, for which at the moment scientists do not have an answer.
mysterious error
Data from telemetry those that allow remote measurement of physical quantities and their subsequent sending to an operator, in this case, located on Earth.
So far, the telemetry data sent by Voyager 1 seemed to be correct. However, lately they have not lived up to expectations given their position. Something is happening and it would be fantastic to imagine some kind of alien intervention, but most likely the probe will simply fail, because already over 40 years.
It takes about two days to send a message and receive a response from Voyager 1.
That is why the engineers are already working. light is late just over 20 hours to travel the distance that this Voyager probe is, so it would take two days to send a message and get a response. This delay is one of the main factors that scientists trying to correct a bug must consider. Also, they should check if this error comes directly from articulation and orientation control system (AACS), responsible for measuring telemetry, or some other device on the ship. In general, everything else seems to work correctly, as the data is added up, but this will need to be investigated.
If they fail to do so, as explained by NASA, the key will be to continue working with this error. As if it were a small gap or a nuisance that they have to get used to. Not optimal, but these two probes have already more than satisfied what was considered optimal for them. they can be made some concessions.
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