NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced it solved a computer problem that was causing the Voyager 1 spacecraft to send garbled information about its status.
in May that Voyager 1 started sending invalid information from a"critical system" called the attitude articulation and control system, which supplies details about its health and activities.
Engineers determined the spacecraft somehow started processing information through a long-dead computer before sending it back to Earth, and solved the problem by rerouting its data to a working computer. It's unclear why Voyager 1 started using the incorrect computer, with NASA noting it could"indicate there is an issue somewhere else on the spacecraft," though not one it believes will imperil its mission.
Voyager 1 continued returning scientific data and took commands from Earth during the period it was sending corrupted information about its health, according to NASA."We’re cautiously optimistic, but we still have more investigating to do," Suzanne Dodd, Voyager’s project manager, said in a statement.NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe in 1977 with a mission of exploring outer regions of the solar system and ultimately interstellar space.
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