It is a big breaking news that NASA's 47-year-old spacecraft which is Voyager 1 has recently established a new contact with the Earth's observatory after years with the help of a Radio transmitter that has not been used for decades.
NASA engineers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory or JPL
have confirmed in California that they have re-established a new contact with
NASA's Voyager 1 after many years. The spacecraft which is now in interstellar
space over 15 billion miles away stopped sending readable data back to Earth on
Nov 14, 2023, but now we are able to connect with it.
The team of Jet Propulsion laboratory has found that
there was an issue chip and the FDS memory that was not working. The loss of
that code rendered the science and engineering data unusable.
This is a piece of great news for every space lover.
Their team now has started singling out the code responsible for packaging the
data of the spacecraft's engineering.
As per NASA's official information, the message takes
around 23 hours to travel one way from the Earth's observatory to the Voyager 1
and vice versa. Initially, on 16th October, when the engineers of NASA sent a
command to the spacecraft, they could not detect its response till October 18,
a day later the voyagers stopped responding completely.
After a few days or months of investigation, the space
agency team discovered that the Voyager 1st fault protection system had
switched the spacecraft to a second lower power transmitter.
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