NASA's Voyager 1 is continuing its journey beyond our Solar System, 45 years after it was launched. But now the veteran spacecraft is sending back strange data, puzzling its engineers.
NASA said that from what its engineers can tell, Voyager 1's AACS is sending randomly generated data that do not"reflect what's actually happening onboard."
But even if system data suggests otherwise, the spacecraft's antenna seems to be properly aligned – it is receiving and executing commands from NASA and sending data back to Earth. It said that so far the system issue hasn't triggered the aging spacecraft to go into"safe mode," during which it carries out only essential operations.
"Until the nature of the issue is better understood, the team cannot anticipate whether this might affect how long the spacecraft can collect and transmit science data," NASA said. Dodd and her team hope to figure out what's prompting the robot emissary from Earth to send junky data.A major one: It takes light 20 hours and 33 minutes to get to Voyager's current interstellar location, so a round-trip message between the space agency and Voyager takes two days.This article was originally published by
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