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For months, there has been a rising fear that we may have to say farewell to the Voyager 1 spacecraft after it began to send back garbled data. Now, in …read more Continue reading NASA Engineers Poke Voyager 1 and Receive Memory Dump
We all know that we’re living in a surveillance state that would make Orwell himself shake his head, but it looks like at least one company in this space has …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 10, 2024
Sometimes it’s hard to read the tea leaves of what’s going on with high-profile space missions. Weighted down as they are with the need to be careful with taxpayer money …read more Continue reading Flipped Bit Could Mark the End of Voyager 1‘s Interstellar Mission
A team of scientists from the University of Oxford has concluded that our popular ideas about the colors of the planets Uranus and Neptune are all wrong. Far from being two distinct shades, they are, in fact, nearly the same shade of greenish blue.Cont… Continue reading Scientist find the true color of Uranus … and Neptune
NASA engineers are working to correct a new fault in one of the computers aboard the Voyager 1 deep space probe that is preventing the 46-year-old spacecraft from transmitting any scientific or engineering data back to Mission Control on Earth.Continue… Continue reading Voyager 1 suffers glitch keeping it from transmitting data
Recently the team at JPL responsible for communication with the Voyager 1 spacecraft noticed an issue with the data it was returning from the Flight Data System (FDS). Although normally …read more Continue reading Voyager 1 In Trouble As Engineers Scramble To Debug Issue With Flight Data System
NASA Voyager mission engineers are preparing a software patch that will allow the thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 interstellar probes to continue operating for another five years, keeping the spacecraft in communications with Earth.Continue Readin… Continue reading NASA tweaks Voyager software to protect thrusters against gunge
It’s not every day that you get to update the firmware on a device that was produced in the 1970s, and rarely is said device well beyond the boundaries of …read more Continue reading NASA JPL’s Voyager Team Is Patching Up Both Voyagers’ Firmware
In a dramatic bit of improvisation, NASA’ Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has managed to reestablish communications with the Voyager 2 spacecraft 12.3 billion miles (19.9 billion km) from Earth after losing contact on July 21.C… Continue reading “Interstellar shout” reestablishes contact with Voyager 2
NASA has lost contact with its Voyager 2 deep-space probe. On July 21, 2023, Mission Control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) sent a series of commands that “inadvertently” caused the robotic spacecraft to turn its antenna away from Earth.Continu… Continue reading NASA loses contact with Voyager 2 but detects a “heartbeat”