The Voyager 1 satellite, which will soon run out of batteries, started sending erroneous data. NASA engineers do not know how to solve the problem that started last month. Engineers are trying to fix the problems in the satellite, which works with old technology, by looking at the manuals of about 50 years, but this is not as easy as it seems.
Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft carrying Turkish messages will be shut down soon
Voyager 1, along with its twin Voyager 2, was launched in 1977, estimated to take five years to closely study Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and their associated moons. But despite being in space for nearly 45 years, both spacecraft are still operating.
In 2012, Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space by going beyond the boundaries of the solar system known as the heliopause. At the moment The worldIt’s about 14.5 billion miles from Earth and continues to send data from the edge of the solar system.
VOYAGER 1 and VOYAGER 2 SATELLITES ARE MISSING IN GUIDES
Voyager 1 was designed in the early 1970s. That’s why new engineers have trouble troubleshooting the spacecraft.
The former engineers who designed the Voyager satellite did not regularly file some paperwork detailing the spacecraft’s design and procedures. For this reason, it is not easy for engineers to reach technical details about the satellite.
Suzanne Dodd, project manager for the Voyager mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explains:
“Thousands of engineers worked on the project for the first 12 years of the Voyager mission, and most of them retired in the 70’s and 80’s. Plus there wasn’t a lot of pressure back then to have a project document library. People would take the manuals home to their garage.”
In modern missions, NASA keeps a tighter archive, learning from the past.
Despite the spacecraft’s problems, it still receives commands from Earth. Its antenna is still facing us. dodd, “We did not see any deterioration in signal strength” He said that the satellites continue to work for now.
NASA engineers are shutting down some systems on the Voyager satellite, hoping it will work by 2030. As soon as the battery runs out, the satellites will become history.
SOURCE: NEWS7
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Mustafa Cokyasar
Haber7.com – Technology Editor
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