NASA’s Voyager 1 Sends Meaningful Data Months Later

NASA sent on interstellar journeys Voyager 1 The broker had been unable to send meaningful data for months. On Saturday, it was announced that reliable data was received from the spacecraft regarding system health and mission control. Now the vehicle is expected to start collecting and sending scientific data again.

Voyager 1 readable to our planet system data and scientific data When he sent it, the calendars showed November 14, 2023. From this date on, commands could be sent to Voyager 1, but the vehicle’s feedback was incomprehensible. In March, NASA’s JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) team managed to solve the problem of Voyager 1. Accordingly, it was revealed that the data became unreadable due to a malfunction in a chip used for the vehicle’s flight data system (FDS).

The code has been relocated

In normal conditions in FDS The collected data was converted into a single data packet in binary code and sent. Since the malfunction in the chip began, the data sent by the vehicle had become a repeating series of zeros and ones. To put it simply, Voyager 1 responds to every command given to it or the information it tries to convey.Eeeeeee” he could say.

Experts at NASA used FDS codes to solve this problem.to a part of the chip that is not affected by the fault. managed to carry it. The problem was solved from a distance of 24.36 billion kilometers. The code migration was carried out on April 18. It is expected that Voyager 1 will start sending scientific data in the future, with the code that compiles the scientific data being carried.