NASA announced its intervention to fix a software defect on board the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which is more than 15 billion miles away from Earth.
The agency stated that its engineers are trying to fix a software defect on board the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which explores the outer limits of the solar system and is 15 billion miles away from Earth.
The spacecraft’s flight data system appears to be stuck in auto-repeat mode, meaning the spacecraft is sending the same information back to Earth over and over again. Voyager can still receive commands from mission control, so NASA is still trying to figure out what’s causing the problem. Before deciding what to do next.
NASA reported on Its official website After ruling out other possibilities, the Voyager team determined that the source of the problem was FDS. Last weekend, the team attempted to restart FDS and return it to the state it was in before the problem began, but the spacecraft still did not return usable data.
Engineers are working to solve a problem in one of the three computers on board Voyager 1 called the Flight Data System (FDS). The spacecraft receives commands sent from Earth and executes them. However, the FDS does not communicate properly with one of the probe’s subsystems, called the Telecommunications Unit (TMU). As a result, no scientific or engineering data is transmitted to Earth. Recently, the TMU began sending a repetitive pattern of ones and zeros as if it was “stuck.”
NASA had previously announced that it was experiencing communication problems with its Voyager 1 spacecraft, which involved the communications module in the spacecraft’s flight data system.
According to NASA, the mission control team received only a repeating pattern of ones and zeros as if trapped in a loop and no scientific or engineering data was returned to Earth.