How Did NASA Fix Voyager 1, 15 Billion Miles Away?

Voyager 1, a man-made object Even if it has trouble this far from Earth It pushes the limits of how it can be saved.

In the past months, Unexpectedly strange data streams from Voyager 1 began to arrive and attracted the attention of NASA.

The spacecraft was sending back incomprehensible information instead of the expected scientific data.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) engineers, When the spacecraft’s data flow suddenly stopped, he worked intensively to understand the source of the problem.

According to preliminary findings, a device on Voyager 1’s Flight Data Subsystem (FDS) The memory problem had disrupted the normal flow of information.

So how was the problem solved?

Engineers to identify the problem They had to recode FDS’s memory. As a result of their analysis, they determined that a section of the FDS was damaged and the information in this section was no longer accessible.

Upon this By sending a new command set to Voyager 1 Access to healthy memory areas outside the damaged area was achieved.

After the command was sent, NASA engineers waited for a response from Voyager 1 for two days.

Finally, the signal containing data indicating the health status of Voyager 1 reached Earth. Well that the spacecraft is still functional and showed that the repaired memory sections were working correctly.

It allowed Voyager 1 to continue its mission in space. Engineers are now testing the spacecraft’s scientific data collection capacity. continues its work to fully restore

Thus, it helps to obtain more information about the interstellar medium and humanity’s continued existence in space will allow.

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