Voyager 1 Started Transmitting Data From All Four Scientific Instruments To The Earth
After a month of intensive work, NASA specialists successfully restored the functioning of all four scientific instruments on board the Voyager 1 space probe, which has been traveling in the depths of space for more than 40 years. This is a significant achievement, given the age and distance of the device from Earth.
The probe’s electronics began to go crazy in November 2023. The device began sending meaningless sets of zeros and ones to Earth. By April, NASA specialists discovered the cause of the problem – it turned out to be a failure of one of the memory chips. The firmware update helped bypass the faulty memory unit, and the probe’s onboard equipment returned to normal operation.
The mission team almost completely returned Voyager 1 to its pre-crash state. It remains to restore the operation of the digital tape recorder, which collects and resets certain data from the plasma wave sensor once every six months.
Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 to study Jupiter and Saturn and then continued its journey into the depths of space. It is now more than 14 billion miles from Earth and became the first human creature to leave the solar system.
